ENTIRE CHAT LOG

LOL!! I was still the first!! I can't believe that! I didn't finish yesterday's puzzle because today was a busy day, so I was entering words right up to the end. (Only had 14 left, dangit)

12:02 am

stidmama

oh, that's close. I didn't hear back from you mom -- any word?

12:03 am

renfield

flip out

12:03 am

stidmama

oh and... ***Liv***

12:03 am

SueQ

flip

12:03 am

stidmama

hey SueQ! how close did you get?

12:04 am

SueQ

short by 30 something, oh well, there's always this one, GROAN....

12:05 am

stidmama

;-) that's the thrill of the chase, my friend!

mrp -- how bad do you suppose this will be?

12:06 am

corpsvalue

f7/44

12:07 am

mrpresident

hi stidmama well, I have the
li9/54
but it might be tough

12:08 am

mrpresident

li8/50

12:08 am

corpsvalue

L8/50

12:08 am

corpsvalue

good job Mr. P ; )

12:09 am

WelaV1927

how many words?

12:09 am

bbnaz

flip. am going to watch some X Files first and then back to try and crank this one out. I can't play tomorrow so must do as well as I can tonight and early a.m.

Hello Stid, MrP, Knut, Ren and everybody!

12:10 am

chic

Hello all!

12:11 am

corpsvalue

m7/32

12:11 am

mrpresident

hi bbn...
chic!!

12:11 am

mrpresident

2 x fu7/44

12:11 am

chic

got the 8!

12:12 am

corpsvalue

thanks mrp, i just got the other f7/44.

12:12 am

mrpresident

2 x me7/32
em7/36
aw7/44

12:13 am

mrpresident

si7/32
na7/28

12:13 am

stidmama

hi chic, hi bbnaz!

12:14 am

mrpresident

fi7/40
li7/28

12:16 am

chic

Hi Stid!

12:17 am

stidmama

I got an 8! (yippee for me)

12:18 am

WelaV1927

word count?

12:19 am

stidmama

174 words today... :-)

12:20 am

corpsvalue

o6/18

12:26 am

stidmama

57 words so far... you knutmeg?

12:32 am

stidmama

oh -- I see Lickety's playing again! hope his game goes well! :-) I think I'll turn in until his clues are up later. see you all!

12:47 am

rycaut

how many words today?

12:47 am

mab

Hello? Do I have the whole place to myself

12:47 am

mab

174

12:51 am

renfield

no mab - i'm here as well

12:52 am

mab

Hi ren. What a handsome logo - what is it for?

12:52 am

renfield

louie vuitton logo for today?

12:53 am

mab

Oh, I see. I don't know many logos by heart.

12:54 am

renfield

it's branding..i guess i get to see a lot of items since i go shopping w/ my siser in law

12:55 am

renfield

how's the tap dancing?

12:57 am

mab

I used to love shopping with William's sister - I might buy one item while she would by many many, and three to 10 of each. I wonder how she is. I wonder where she is - last I heard she was in South Africa.

Books! I'm crazy when it comes to books. Although poor, I still manage to buy them.

1:01 am

renfield

i never pay wholesale for books! i buy used bools

1:02 am

mab

I love him too. He represents such an enormous lot in jazz history. And I love Billy Strayhorne songs.

1:04 am

renfield

A train

1:04 am

mab

I agree. There's no point in paying full price for books any more.

1:05 am

renfield

you could buy groceries for a week for the price of some of the books

1:05 am

mab

Satin Doll, Lush Life, Duke's Joint

1:06 am

renfield

oh yes satin doll....

1:08 am

mab

I actually sort of get a thrill out of getting a book second-hand. First that it's not expensive, and secondly that someone else has presumably read it - I like something about that. Of course, once in my library it rarely goes any further in the world.

1:09 am

renfield

and i wonder about the books w/ inscriptions...i don;t even loan my books....

1:10 am

mab

It's funny how some melodies are picked up in jazz circles. For awhile everyone was doing their version of My Favorite Things. I don't really associate whiskers on kittens with John Coltrane.

1:11 am

mab

Love inscriptions.

1:11 am

renfield

and it's like rock and roll elevator music.....

1:11 am

mab

Not the way Coltrane did it.

1:13 am

renfield

right....there's just some music that can;t cross genre....and some you are amazed when an artist performs it!

1:15 am

mab

Yes, for example, I don't reallly want to hear Sinatra (who may or may not really be jazz) singing the Beatles' Yesterday -- yech

1:15 am

sonipitts

here's a style bender for you...an incredibly well done and hilarious folk cover of Baby Got Back by Jonathan Coulton
http://www.jonathancou lton.com/lyrics/baby-got-back

His other stuff
http://www.jonathancoult on.com/songs

1:16 am

renfield

that was strange......i like chick corea's gershwin

1:17 am

hannah lou

morin all

1:17 am

sonipitts

If you have trouble with the streaming from the lyrics page, they sometimes play better from the main listings page.

1:17 am

renfield

hey soni - long time no see

1:17 am

ruthy

happy brithday hannah lou

1:17 am

renfield

hey hannah

1:18 am

hannah lou

hi renfeild

1:18 am

sonipitts

hey ren - yeah, a week of deadlines and a weekend of food poisoning really cuts into Babble time. :-D

soni you are the 3rd person i've spoke w. today that has suffered from food p

1:22 am

mab

That's some lyric, soni! I don't know John Coulton.

1:22 am

sonipitts

Maybe it's you. *snork* :-D

1:26 am

sonipitts

John Coulton is a geek music genious. I find it absolutely amazing that he can translate such a rap-a-licious Sir Mix-A-Lot piece like Baby Got Back into pure, melodic folk stylings. The man's a friggin maestro. His Re: Your Brains is hillarious, too. It's zombies, on an office conference call.

1:26 am

mab

Chick Corea doing Gershwin -- I've never heard it but bet it's good.

1:27 am

renfield

it is mab.

1:27 am

hannah lou

thank you all for ur messages

1:29 am

mab

Never leaving the house and not having television has hugely cut into my knowledge (which was vague to begin with) of popular culture. I wonder if I care about that. I wonder if I should worry. hmmm....

1:30 am

mab

This is a huge birthday, Hannah. I hope you have a wonderful day.

1:31 am

renfield

mab....you aren;t missing a thing!

1:31 am

mab

I'm just thinking about your posting, soni. I wouldn't be able to identify that song if my life depended on it. Maybe if Dizzy Gillespie covered it....

1:34 am

renfield

mab do you ever listen to fats waller's piano?

1:34 am

mab

MSN is my isp. One day not long ago there was a picture of Tom Cruise and the cutline was about how he and his partner had a child and how one could learn more about this. Does anyone really care?

1:35 am

renfield

no

1:35 am

mab

I don't own any Fats Waller, but very occassionally he's played on the public radio station here. I love him.

1:37 am

sonipitts

Ah, well, there is that. Baby Got Back is a booty anthem from the height of the hip-hop craze. I'll see if I can find a clip of the original for you.

1:38 am

mab

That's ok. I admire the hip hop form for it's poetic potential, but I'm not a big fan.

Congratulations, ExWren. Happy anniversary! And do
play. I gave up at 95 or so yesterday but it was still fun.

3:48 am

oggy

you have to work at it , which at lot of couples dont do.

3:49 am

hydra

Your're right, oggy. My marriage only lasted 2 years. I
found out he had another woman. The b******!

3:50 am

Haz1558

I think a lot of couples have unrealistic expectations of marriage and expect to be deliriously happy all the time. Life's not like that!

3:50 am

oggy

my sons on his second already, and he didnt last a year.

3:50 am

ExWren

We were both widowed, so we were very lucky to find each other. I very much doubt we will live long enough to reach 34 years though oggy!

3:51 am

Haz1558

Ex-Wren - it's lovely that you have both had a second chance of happiness together. Long may it continue.

3:51 am

ExWren

All three of my sons are divorced, one has remarried and the other two have live-in partners!

3:51 am

hydra

Let's hope you do, ExWren. You never know, they might
find the secret of reversing age next year! Hope so. I'd
like to see my wrinkles melt away.

3:52 am

mrpresident

Hello all! nice grid

3:53 am

Haz1558

Hello MrPresident.

3:53 am

hydra

Mornin', MrP.

3:54 am

mrpresident

Haz, that is a very formal greeting!!

3:55 am

Haz1558

Sorry - it's the MrPresident thing, I feel I have to accord you due respect!

3:56 am

mrpresident

LOL Haz!

hydra... you did find yourself a right b*****! Poor you!!

3:59 am

hydra

He was a rock musician. She was a groupie. Shoulda known better! And before anyone asks, it wasn't a famous band. Just London based. I was a music journo at the time I met him.

4:04 am

mrpresident

hydra, why should you have known better?

He should have been a man/husband and kept his di** in his pants! I hate cheaters! I was caught up in a relationship with a guy... he was great! then one day at the club, his 'girlfriend' comes over and threatens to tell his 'wife' about everything (I had no idea about this girlfriend OR the wife) unless he pays her all this money!! He turns to me and says, "I love you"... I tell him to FO and shut his pie hole and leave!

4:06 am

hydra

You're so brave. You did just the right thing. Wish I'd been a fly on the wall! I got in a relationship with a guy and he didn't tell me he had a wife and two kids. I was heartbroken. Men can get away with it because they're not home cooking tea and wiping tiny bums.

4:07 am

mrpresident

Real men are at home cooking tea and wiping up the mess! Find a real man and you will have the future you want!! a HAPPY one!

4:09 am

hydra

I have one right now. He worked from 6.30am to 6.30pm
yesterday putting glass in my new conservatory! He's a gem.

4:09 am

Haz1558

Just to play devil's advocate - not all real men are quite so domesticated but they should at least be willing to help!

4:10 am

mrpresident

Good going Hydra!!

4:11 am

hydra

He also builds and mends computers, makes jewellery, builds websites and is a registered plumber. Anyone want to borrow him?

4:11 am

Haz1558

Well, mine can calve a cow......

4:12 am

mrpresident

hydra! don't lend that one out!!

4:13 am

hydra

I can't beat that. Wow!

4:13 am

Haz1558

hydra - it's not awfully useful around the house, but it helps to pay the bills!

4:25 am

scatty

Hydra, can i borrow your husband, mines good with putting sheleves up, but when it comes to computers he just wipes things out if it doesn't work and hopes that the extra space will make it work(not)

4:28 am

scatty

i'm not complaining though, compared to alot of men around here, mines an angel, a housework buff, keeps the garden tidy and is a good cook , not like me

4:30 am

scatty

have lost the last jo, any help please

4:32 am

mrpresident

scatty... jo + 5th & 1st vowel + l

4:33 am

scatty

thanks mrp, couldn't see it

4:36 am

Haz1558

Okay - got my first 100 words and it's time to get ready for shopping (groan). Have a good day and see you later.

4:37 am

mrpresident

bye haz, get something for the blood splatter whilst you are out! That cow juice is hard to get off the curtains!! LOL

4:38 am

scatty

bye Haz

5:02 am

hydra

Hi scatty. Been away for a while doing things to holiday photos taken from mobile phone. So many people borrow my bloke (just boyfriend, not husband - if you can call a 58 yr old a boy!), he's all worn out! He's got to do my new kitchen next!

5:36 am

scatty

Hi hydra, no wonder he's worn out with all the things you have him doing, mine of 25 years in june is god at things once he puts his mind to it, do you know no-one has been chattings for the past hour, i think everyone has gone to sleep

5:38 am

scatty

i'm going for a while, have to Asda shop dog food, so much cheaper than the Co-op here, back in about an hour, as far as the n's so will be back to finish, if i can get back onto the computer

5:43 am

Eva

good morning everyone. This seems like a hard one. Yesterday's was smooth sailing. Oh well.

5:44 am

cliffopa

morning eva.

5:46 am

Eva

Hi Cliff. Did the baby sleep through the night or did she keep you awake? Another phenomenal day. The superstitious part of me keeps being convinced that we will have to pay for all this amazing weather-do you think a tsunami is possible in Vermont?(-:

5:47 am

Eva

Oh, by the way, the first blackflies havea been spotted. Much too early, but I'm hoping that the frosts the past two nights may have killed them.

5:49 am

cliffopa

the baby has (his) own room on the 1st floor of our house, bedroom is on 2nd so i got to sleep....when i went to bed anyway. i couldn't tear myself away from the cutie pie until midnite. we had a little scare yesterday - his legs weren't working for a while. but he is racing around today :)

i know what you mean about the weather! i hope we don't have to pay for all this sunshine with a rainy summer. it has been soooo nice.

5:51 am

cliffopa

i'm predicting a bad year for black flies. it has been so dry around here i don't know how they could be reproducing.

5:51 am

Eva

wonder what was wrong with his legs? If there was swelling from the attack I suppose that could do it temporarily.

5:52 am

Eva

unllke mospquitos, which like standing water, blackflies need clean,running water and we still have plenty of that.

5:52 am

cliffopa

the vet said probably just nerve damage or swelling. xrays were fine.

5:54 am

cliffopa

i did not know that eva (clean running water) but we still should do okay. brooks and streams in my area are running low if running at all. not very good for fishing.

5:56 am

Eva

There's an si7 running around somewhere. Have you spotted it?I have the 8 & 9 and 8 of the 7's.

5:57 am

cliffopa

i only have the sunday newspaper comics (fu 7) and the bad people(me 7) for 7's

5:58 am

Eva

the log lists most of them and isn't very long this morning.

5:58 am

lynxxx

the SI7 usually starts with IN

6:00 am

Eva

Thanks lynxxx!

6:00 am

cliffopa

i'll have to go back and look if i don't make much progress. i have not been challenging myself enough lately (i've been using lickety's list less than halfway thru)

6:02 am

Eva

I go it on my own until I run dry, then review the log, then ask for help, then when I come back at the end of the day I give in another go and then go for BJ's list when I'm down below 30 or so. More than that and using the lists is just too exhausting physically.

6:04 am

Eva

You could bring Brady over for a play date. I would love to find out how Merp would react to a kitten, to know whether we could get another cat. But it would mean having one here for weeks, for long enough to tell once the fur stops flying, and I would be heart broken if I had to give a kitten back to the pound.

6:04 am

cliffopa

eva - i just realized we used a word....those black things. oops!

6:04 am

Eva

oops

6:05 am

FMitch

Morning!
Cliff, was just reading the log and saw yr entry te the baby and then read up the log further and saw "the vet" and was very confused until I realised it was the kitten you were talking about, still haven't quite stopped laughing at myself yet :)

6:06 am

Eva

Morning FMitch! This baby has more fur than most.

6:06 am

Eva

there just can't be 21 a's!!

6:06 am

FMitch

LOL Eva, is the grid being kind to you today?

6:07 am

Eva

I'm finding it rough going, but then I often do, unlike some of you. 77 left to find after about an hour.

6:08 am

cliffopa

i've had to be very patient when introducing new cats in my house. 3 1/2 yrs ago i adopted 2 elderly cats and it was a year before they could be in my dog's company. then the 3 yr old female came on board 18 months ago. she wanted to be friendly, but the old guys were not impressed. the one old guy i still have chases her if she comes close. but that is why we have the 'safe' room with gates in the door - so they can get to know each other slowly.

6:09 am

FMitch

I call nearly 100 words in a hour great going Eva!!!

6:09 am

cliffopa

i'm glad you had a laugh about it fmitch...we all need something to laugh at :)

6:10 am

FMitch

:) Cliff, glad the little one is alright now though.

6:10 am

cliffopa

21 a's???? i haven't got one yet :(

6:11 am

cliffopa

i'm happy brady came thru everything okay too. i still can't believe i have a kitten! i haven't raised a kitten for 18 yrs. i can't stop looking at him or taking pictures. good cure for my 'empty nest' problem.

6:14 am

Eva

Those first 100 are usually pretty fast, but I still don't have a propeer babble vocabulary, so once the common words run dry I have to wait for the rest of you to reveal the secret codes.

Cliff-speaking of empty nest, how is your son doing?

6:16 am

Eva

also, I decided a while ago, after the initial mania died down some, that I don't want to work to hard at the grids. I only do what I can do in a relaxed way. After all (ducking so as not to get shot) it's "only a game", and if it's not fun it's not worth it. Also, it's not good for the fibromylagia to stay at it for too long.

6:17 am

cliffopa

thank you for asking eva. my son is doing well. he has been able to call me 3 times (only for 3 minutes each time) but now he has email so i'm sure he'll keep me updated more often. he says he is enjoying the challenges, except for the heat. it has been in the 80's since he got there (alabama).

6:18 am

Eva

will he be staying in alabama, or is he en route to someplace worrisome?

6:18 am

FMitch

good philosophy Eva, wish I could apply some of that strategy.

Good to hear re yr son Cliff, do keep us updated.

6:19 am

cliffopa

i'm still trying to come out of the babble 'mania' stage. since i completed my first grid about a month ago, i haven't been able to go a day without finishing.

6:21 am

cliffopa

my son will only be in 'bama until july. he was accepted into the USAF as a mechanical engineer and will be doing research and development for aeronautics. there are a handful of bases where the engineers work on research, including one in massachusetts, but he won't find out until july where he is going. fortunately officers in his position don't spend much if any time in battle zones.

6:24 am

FMitch

ta7/32 op of short mlinus last letter + u4/5 .. or ..
def: A sloping mass of rock debris at the base of a cliff

6:27 am

cliffopa

i'm looking at my base... :)

still can't find the whole word

6:30 am

FMitch

LOL,
Op of short minus last letter and then "he u*** a hammer to hit a nail"

6:37 am

Sherylr1961

good morning to my fellow babblers

6:38 am

Angelsong

morning, everyone!

6:38 am

cliffopa

morning sheryl

6:39 am

Sherylr1961

how goes it cliff?

6:40 am

bex777

good morning/afternoon everyone!!

6:40 am

cliffopa

not much progress with today's grid, but otherwise a beautiful new england day. how are things in your neck of the woods?

6:42 am

Sherylr1961

nice sunny day, here too, and same with the gird, lol

6:42 am

FMitch

Hi Bex, Angel and Sheryl

6:43 am

Sherylr1961

hello fmitch how are you?

6:44 am

FMitch

Doing fine thanks, and sun is trying to shine :)

6:44 am

Sherylr1961

going to get out in my garden and start pulling the weeds, can't believe those little devils have already got a strong hold in there, lol

6:45 am

FMitch

just thinking, there may be 21 a's but at least there are no re's!!!

6:45 am

Angelsong

I can't believe 21 A's. still need 6 of them.

6:46 am

Sherylr1961

I wanted to sleep in today since I was up late last night watching movies but my internal clock had me up at 7 am guess that is better than the 6:30 am I get up for on a work day, lol

6:46 am

Sherylr1961

I only need to more A's that I am stuck on

6:47 am

Sherylr1961

oops 2 more not to more, lol

6:48 am

Sherylr1961

today's icon theme is monsters, so I left the zippers since when my arthitis is flared up a zipper is a monster for me, lol

6:48 am

Angelsong

I just tripped over the 8 letter word...:)

6:49 am

FMitch

oooh well done I dont have the 8 or 9 yet.

6:49 am

bex777

i thought todays theme was logos?

6:50 am

FMitch

Not following the theme today Bex.

6:50 am

Sherylr1961

I could be wrong, maybe that is for tomorrow???

6:51 am

bex777

i think monsters is tomorrow and logos today. well that is what babbler's profile says

6:51 am

Sherylr1961

yup i got it backwards, lol

6:52 am

bex777

ok my logo has arrived!

6:56 am

FMitch

Angel I have the 8 too now, had the abbr of it but never thought of extending it.
Also found the 9, very similar word but the ending is the pt of "to consume food"

6:56 am

snowyowl

Hi all - just having a break before scouring the upper floor of the tip that I call home! Bex - you will recognise my logo I think!

6:57 am

bex777

yes id o!

6:58 am

Sherylr1961

hey snowy

6:59 am

snowyowl

Hi Sheryl! Hows this grid? Haven't had any regular babbling for some time now -I am despairing of ever finishing another one!

7:01 am

Sherylr1961

grid is a good one, been kinda tricky for me so far, but slogging away at it.

7:02 am

hurshy

morning, babblers

7:02 am

periwinkle

Good MOrning all, what does the 8 start with please

7:02 am

Sherylr1961

gm hurshy how are you?

7:03 am

mrpresident

peri it is an li word that you find on most kitchen floors

7:03 am

hurshy

fine thanks, sheryl, and you?

7:03 am

cliffopa

morning peri, hurshy, and snowy :)

7:04 am

hurshy

morning cliff

7:04 am

FMitch

Hi Peri and everyone thats just come in.
THe 8 starts with an L

Hey MrP!!

7:04 am

Sherylr1961

doing fine ty hurshy, happy it's Saturday and no work

7:04 am

gramma

Howdy, howdy, howdy, to all.

7:04 am

mrpresident

((FMItch)) Hello

7:04 am

periwinkle

Thanks everyone, found the 8, I too had the abrev. version and didn't think to look for the real word

7:05 am

snowyowl

Hi -MrP, Cliffopa, Peri & Hurshy!

7:05 am

Sherylr1961

tired of monkey typing the an 5/10 and the 6/18 which I am figuring is the plural, any clues pls and ty can't seem to get it

7:06 am

periwinkle

Can anyone tell me what the 9 starts with

7:06 am

periwinkle

Sheryl do you have the licorice tasting spice

7:06 am

Sherylr1961

i believe it's an l word peri

7:06 am

FMitch

Same letter Peri - look at my clue at 6.56

7:08 am

periwinkle

FMitch, thanks so much

7:08 am

hurshy

refresh please - embarrassing icon mistake corrected.

7:08 am

FMitch

y/w :)

7:09 am

Sherylr1961

peri, I have that one

7:09 am

periwinkle

Sheryl, did you see my clue for the an words you are seeking?

7:10 am

gramma

FMitch, I checked your clue but I don't get it. 8(
I don't have the 8 or 9. Help please???

7:10 am

Sherylr1961

I have that an peri must be another one

7:11 am

Kateq

an5 = senile, resembling a doddering old woman

7:11 am

FMitch

As MrP said "it is an li word that you find on most kitchen floors" work from that for the l4/4 and then expand. Hope that helps.

almost halfway through, need to go do errands and stuff will be back later

7:15 am

mrpresident

((snowy))!! long time no see!

7:15 am

periwinkle

Sheryl, don't know only have 10 of the A words,

7:15 am

mrpresident

bye for now peri

7:15 am

Sherylr1961

it's the last an 5/10 and 6/18 on the list

7:15 am

periwinkle

Actually have 13 of the A words, now I am really going

7:16 am

Sherylr1961

bye peri, ty for the clues

7:16 am

FMitch

HAve you got the an + the spanish cry?

7:17 am

Sherylr1961

fmitch got that one so it must be the one after that

7:17 am

FMitch

darn, don't have that myself.

7:17 am

Kateq

an5 = old word for anoint

7:18 am

mrpresident

an5 & 6 is the mediterranean herb star an***

7:18 am

Kateq

or an 5=plural of an4 blue dye

7:19 am

Sherylr1961

got that one also mr p, the list says 10 an words and I have only eight

7:19 am

FMitch

was working on the n's but am going to have to look for the missing a's instead :)

7:20 am

mrpresident

shery.... the only other 5/10 and 6/18 is the chameleon

7:21 am

Sherylr1961

ty kate that was one of them now just the 6/18 needed, need a coffee, lol

7:22 am

sprite

Good afternoon, dear gang! :)

7:22 am

Kateq

an 6/18 = an + spanish cry + plural

7:22 am

Sherylr1961

duh pass the fish, finally got it

7:22 am

Sherylr1961

ty everyone for your patience, lol brb need a cuppa

7:23 am

FMitch

Sprilte how good to see you, and at this time of day?!

7:23 am

mrpresident

Sprite!!
how did sudoku pan out...??

7:24 am

sprite

Sudoku done, but with guessing. Well, nm ;)
Hi FMitch, nice to see you too!

7:25 am

mrpresident

Sprite, I stared at it, looked away and BAM! there was the link... it was ok!

7:26 am

sprite

Yeah, I know, I am having a stupid day, I think. I just couldn't see it.

7:27 am

mrpresident

I better go watch the soccer with Lickety... he is screaming and jumping up and down at every close goal... all on his little lonesome!!

7:27 am

sprite

Nice picture :) Have fun and say hi from me.

7:28 am

mrpresident

will do!

BYE everyone!! enjoy the puzzle and see you all later!
((waving!))

7:29 am

FMitch

Byee!!!

7:29 am

gramma

(waving back atcha) Bye Mr.P 8)

7:30 am

Sherylr1961

Yeck, the city I live in has just implemented a new garbage reducing plan, each house is only allowed one bag of garbage a week. They have given us a small composte pail to use and we are suposed to put all our food waste, coffee grounds etc. in it, do you think I can remember to use it, lol. Looks Iike I will have to pay for my extra bags next week, lol

7:31 am

sprite

Sheryl, it's a bit more work, but you will get used to it, I am sure. Good luck ;)

7:35 am

Sherylr1961

I know I will get used to it, I should put the container on my counter not under it for a few weeks so i see it and remember to use it

7:36 am

sprite

That would work for me too, lol. As long as it is in plain view.

7:37 am

Moozey

Sheryl - get very large bags hahaha

7:37 am

Sherylr1961

lol, moozey, gonna need them

7:38 am

cliffopa

i wish there was mandatory recycling in my area. my neighbors regularly put out 5 or more bags each week.

7:40 am

Sherylr1961

thats alot of garbage cliff. We have always had a 2 bag min. so I ahve always recycled paper and plastic and tin and such but the wet stuff is new here.

7:42 am

Sherylr1961

hey, my daughter's last name is in this gird, lol

7:42 am

rumplestiltskin

GOOD SATURDAY MORNING ALL!

******FIREWORKS*****for MrP

Ready to get started!!!!! Hope it's easy, have lots to do today.

7:43 am

Sherylr1961

gm rumple, diving into the puzzle are you?

7:49 am

sprite

God I love Li7/28! :)

7:50 am

FMitch

Yea, I was pleased when I found that one too.

7:51 am

sprite

Actually put a smile on my face :D

7:51 am

FMitch

and there are a couple of good f7's.

7:52 am

sprite

I have 3x F7 so far.

7:52 am

Kateq

I've got all but one of those f 7's--I've been at 173 for a while now--I've got the comics--can't get the other. Any clues?

7:53 am

sprite

2x Fu and 1x Fi.

7:54 am

FMitch

Thats all of them sprite.
There is the big end to a stage show for a 6 and it's pl for the 7.

7:55 am

sprite

And the other Fu is plural for any thing used to get liquid from one place to another.

7:56 am

sprite

*pour liquid from...

7:59 am

Kateq

TY Sprite!
I have the fu 6 that is the singular--but kept looking at the wrong L

I'm done--May I give anyone clues?

8:00 am

sprite

yw and congrats on finishing! :)

8:00 am

bookgrrl

em 7, please?

8:00 am

FMitch

WTG Katieq
May I have a clue for the me7 please

8:00 am

Jera

Good Morning, everyone!

8:02 am

Jera

me7 builds on a 4/5 with common plural ending

8:02 am

Kateq

there are two me 7's
one is the plural of the me 6 nasty person
the other me7 is the pigment(?) in ones skin which makes it darker (a very unscientific definition)

8:02 am

Sherylr1961

gm jera how are you?

8:03 am

Kateq

em 7 = an animal plus la4/4
means to copy

8:03 am

72 Temple Owl

hello. everyone! : )

8:03 am

FMitch

Good clues thanks Kateq and Jera

8:04 am

Sherylr1961

48 more words to go and I am going to take a break and save the rest for later, happy babbling all

8:04 am

bookgrrl

thanks, kateq--that one was too obvious...*sigh*

8:05 am

rumplestiltskin

Morning Jera

8:06 am

Kateq

yw!
Have a lovely day, everyone!

8:09 am

ExWren

Hello everyone, I already looked in about 4 hours ago, but I've popped back to see how you are. I made the decision not to play today, I have other things to do. Its our wedding anniversary so we will be going out later.

8:10 am

FMitch

Hi ExWren
congrats, I your posts in the log from this morning, have a lovely evening.

8:10 am

Uneaixoise

Happy Anniversary!

8:10 am

Grim-Bigyen

ta 7 32 ?
cannot find.
help needed please

8:11 am

72 Temple Owl

happy anniversary, exwren!

8:11 am

gramma

Grim, it's the plural of the 1 above it.

8:13 am

Grim-Bigyen

thats the trouble i need that one also but thought the big one would lead me to it.

8:18 am

cdn_in_va

un5,12 anybody?

8:19 am

gramma

Ta= not short ta**....drop the last consonant and add abbr. for our country

8:19 am

FMitch

Grim - have you got the us4/5? If you do add that to the op of short but take the last letter off the t word 1st. That will give you the 7/32

8:19 am

Grim-Bigyen

thanks

8:20 am

gramma

UN5 an organization for workers' rights

8:20 am

sprite

ExWren, have a great and romantic day :)

8:20 am

FMitch

... and I am done!!!!!!!

8:22 am

gramma

YAHOO! WTG FMitch!!!

8:22 am

72 Temple Owl

yay, fmitch!

8:22 am

Grim-Bigyen

thats me done also.... thanks GRAMMA
can go and watch the football now.
cheers all

8:27 am

gramma

Yaaaaa You Too!!Grim

8:28 am

gramma

ME7/32, anyone?

8:28 am

gramma

The 2nd ME7, please.

8:29 am

FMitch

There are some good clure around 8.00 in the log gramma, they helped me find both the m7's

8:30 am

gramma

TY, FMitch.

8:31 am

FMitch

always welcome gramma:)

8:33 am

Haz1558

Good afternoon all - back to finish, hopefully.

8:33 am

FMitch

Haz, I didn't recognise you !!! LOL

8:35 am

Haz1558

I chose this icon because I feel as though I have supported Boots for years! Having two daughters means that there's plenty of money spent in there.

8:36 am

FMitch

I too have spen many an hour there too.
Many words left to find?

8:37 am

Haz1558

34 to go. I was pleased to find quite a few of the sevens on the first sweep without the list.

8:40 am

FMitch

ooo thats a nice number left to go.

8:43 am

Haz1558

Yes, just enough to keep things interesting rather than daunting.

8:47 am

ExWren

Hey sprite, I have just received an email from my daughter with "Fooduko"!! You have to make up a sandwich with every 9 squares! I couldn't do that one either!

8:53 am

Chris P

Does anyone know what the 8 & 9 are?

8:54 am

Haz1558

li9/54
li8/50 ( think floorcovering for this one)

8:55 am

Chris P

Thanks Haz - had the short version of the li8, but didn't see the rest.

My worst moment was being asked by my children if everything was black and white when I was young!

9:04 am

Chris P

And I wonder why I don't have children!!

9:08 am

snowyowl

Hi all - back briefly - Lol Haz! My son once asked me if we had gas light in the swimming pool when I was young!

9:10 am

Haz1558

And did you????

9:11 am

snowyowl

LOL I'm only 51! Mind you it was in Wales!

9:11 am

FMitch

Gotta run TTFN, have fun babbling :)

9:12 am

snowyowl

bye Fmitch

9:12 am

Haz1558

I think children just have no concept of when things happened - history just seems to merge into a mass of images.

9:13 am

Haz1558

Bye FMitch - see you tomorrow, hopefully.

9:13 am

gramma

See ya, FMitch

9:14 am

snowyowl

It's because we teach such sketchy history now!

9:15 am

Jera

{{{SNOWY}}}

Loooooooove your icon!

9:15 am

gramma

Amen, snowy! History is a bore to kids today.

9:16 am

Haz1558

It's pathetic. I love history, did it for A-level and for two years at university. Learning dates and facts became second nature. My two daughters similarly did history, but they have no overview of how the centuries changed etc.

9:17 am

Jera

I love history & so do my Girls. I guess I'm pretty good at making it fun...

9:17 am

snowyowl

He also asked me if I had to write with a quill pen! Almost - but not quite! Oh how I hated the wooden pen with the broken metal nib!
Hi Jera! & gramma - just had to use our Guide logo!

9:18 am

Haz1558

I think it's so important to be able to understand that the world is why it is today because of what happened before.

9:19 am

gramma

I'm tutoring turn of the century Amer. history..the jazz age, etc. I hear "What's jazz?" I try to show the similarities on immigration then and now, they don't care.

9:19 am

Jera

One of my favorite sayings is Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I quoted that the other day & my husband asked the Sprite, do you know who said that? And she said, Mom! (Meaning I made it up, not that I said it just then). That was pretty funny.

9:20 am

gramma

Brillliant, Jera!

9:21 am

Jera

I had to restart my computer & now I have to re-input all my words into lickety's chart. How about a save feature for an improvement suggestion?

9:21 am

snowyowl

My daughter did Ancient History & Civilisation for her degree. But it is a pity that history is not as wekk regarded as it used to be. How do we know who we are without our history?

9:21 am

Haz1558

Well - it shows she's been listening, Jera! Let's hope she understands how important it is.

9:22 am

Haz1558

Jera - it would be a good idea of we could save the words. I know you can save it as a word document, but that takes foresight!

9:22 am

Jera

The sad/frustrating part is how those of us who know history are rather helpless as we witness others making the same mistakes made centuries before... I sometimes feel much like Cassandra.

9:23 am

Angelsong

second fi4?

9:23 am

Jera

I've been thinking about going back to school & finishing my degree... history would be awesome!

9:23 am

Chris P

Angel - french for son

9:24 am

Haz1558

Angelsong - the second fi4 is French for son.

9:24 am

movieman

We are the champions - my friend
And we'll keep on fighting till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the world......

Hiya, everyone!!!!!!!

9:25 am

Haz1558

And if you don't know French, it ends in the letter normally used for plurals.

9:25 am

Haz1558

A Chelsea fan?

9:25 am

movieman

Ummmm.....yeah!!!!!

9:26 am

Chris P

Okay - off to wake up hubby from his afternoon nap (!) and then go for coffees.

9:26 am

Haz1558

So, what about Mr Scolari then, movieman?

9:27 am

Haz1558

Bye Chris, have a nice day.

9:27 am

Chris P

Bye Haz - will be back later to finish.

9:27 am

movieman

Haz - personally, I didn't think he was the right man for the job, anyway.....

9:28 am

Haz1558

But wasn't it hilarious that the FA makes it public that they are offering him the job, and then he tells them 'No thanks'

9:30 am

movieman

I agree, Haz, I mean the whole thing has descended into a total farce.....

I mean, what sort of manager would announce that he was leaving his team, just before a MAJOR tournament?

9:31 am

Haz1558

And what sort of manager will happily take up the England position, knowing that he is second choice at best. Mind you, the money offered might prove to be a compensation for hurt feelings!

9:32 am

hurshy

hi all

9:33 am

movieman

SCD - Hiya!!!!!!

I'm so happy, I am sooooo happp-pppy!!!!!!

9:33 am

hurshy

why? are you done?

9:34 am

movieman

SCD - nope, my team has just clinched their second successive championship by defeating the "mighty" Manchester United 3-0.....

9:34 am

gramma

Help, please w/the big old AW..

9:34 am

hurshy

ohhhh... i root for puddlemere united

9:35 am

Haz1558

Anyway, time I was heading off - dog walking time and ironing to be done afterwards. Have a good day everyone. (And Movieman, when Chelsea have won as many championships as Manchester United, they will be able to call themselves mighty as well......)

9:35 am

lshult

just found the li8, but the 9 escapes me?

9:36 am

gramma

Cya, Haz...enjoy your day.

9:36 am

movieman

Haz - it's only a matter of time.....

The power base in English football has already shifted....

9:36 am

Jera

gramma think of not having a small aw word

9:37 am

lshult

Congrats on the premiership movieman, my eyes are on the cup as a West Ham fan!!

9:37 am

hurshy

ohhh... football... that's one of those muggle sports, isn't it?

9:37 am

Haz1558

Bye Movieman - enjoy your victory!

9:38 am

movieman

Seeya, Haz!!!!!

9:38 am

gramma

LI9 is like theother w/a diff ending. It ends like " I can't believe I *** the whole thing"

9:39 am

gramma

Jera, ty but I'm a bit dense. I'm not getting your clue 8(

9:40 am

Jera

gramma use the le4/4 meaning not as much

9:41 am

gramma

OOOHkie dokie. got it..thanks

9:42 am

hurshy

no quidditch fans out there today? :(

9:42 am

Bash

I'll play seeker... :)

9:43 am

hurshy

i hope you're fast, bash

9:43 am

Jera

I'm still in an arbor day mood, so I kept my icon from yesterday, since it just happens to be a logo.

9:43 am

Bash

blindingly... :)

9:44 am

hurshy

then i shall be a beater and protect you

9:44 am

Jera

That's okay gramma, I don't get your li9 clue!

9:44 am

Bash

My hero!

9:45 am

Bash

think of li9 as the act of installing the li8. :) it rhymes with 8, too...

9:52 am

Jera

Oh, I see my problem now, I don't have the li8, LOL, just a 7

9:53 am

Bash

li8 is a floor covering....

9:53 am

Jera

Eureka! Thanks gramma!

9:56 am

tndaisy1960

li8 and li9 rhyme??? or am I clue-impaired?

9:57 am

Bash

li9 rhymes with the number 8

9:58 am

tndaisy1960

that's what I thought you said...ok so I'm not completely gone...looks like this is a job for Mr. Coffee...as in, I need MORE of

9:58 am

hydra

The clue to the li8 and 9 is floorcoverings

9:59 am

hurshy

lejur doesn't count? as in i like to babble in my lejur time?

10:00 am

tndaisy1960

oh I got li8 w/o a problem (long story as to "why" this was so relevant in my poor misspent life), but I'll have to look at that 9 again

10:02 am

hurshy

or am i spelling it wrong?

10:04 am

hurshy

that dratted enable dictionary

10:06 am

hurshy

tough crowd.

10:07 am

gramma

hurshy, check the clue at 9:38

10:08 am

hurshy

why?

10:10 am

gramma

Sorry...I meant daisy

10:11 am

hurshy

:)

10:11 am

hurshy

oopsie daisy

10:13 am

gramma

I'm stuck w/just one left....It's the last te5, I think. Help, please?

10:15 am

Haz1558

Just looked in - gramma - te5/10 - first three letters as te4/4 above it, then finish with two vowels that sound like a cry for attention

10:17 am

gramma

TY Haz. I'm off to the garden..8) BBL

10:18 am

Haz1558

Bye gramma!

10:28 am

hurshy

DUDE that is CHEAP. hyperbolic sine is allowed but not hyperbolic tangent??????????????????????? ??

10:31 am

sprite

Lol hurshy, so nice to see you still can be surprised by the dark and mysterious ways of the enable :)

10:32 am

hurshy

not often, sprite, not often

10:32 am

hurshy

and i've been telling people that wondering such things is the path to madness

10:32 am

sprite

Looks like you need a dose of your own advice then ;)
But I agree, it is another stupid thing of the dictionary.

10:32 am

movieman

Sorry to keep going on about it, but......

We are the champions - my friend
And we'll keep on fighting till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the world.......

10:33 am

hurshy

how's your puzzle going sprite? i have 19 left.

10:33 am

sprite

LOL!
Well, congrats then, and enjoy the party!

10:34 am

sprite

I haven't been playing longer than 10 minutes per time today, so it's going slowwwwwwly. Just halfway now.

10:35 am

hurshy

ah, then you'll beat me for sure. esp as i am also playing 20 questions with bex on AIM.

10:36 am

sprite

Lol, sure, I'll beat you with only half to go against your 19 :D Nah, nothing doing, but wth, I am having fun anyway.

10:37 am

hurshy

need i remind you that the last time we met i had 30 something left and you had 130 something and you beat me then?

10:37 am

sprite

I do. Also remember that you got distracted then ;)

10:38 am

hurshy

when do i not?

10:38 am

sprite

:D Gee, I know that feeling. And that one time that I am really focussed, someone in the house yells "MUMMMMMM!"

10:39 am

movieman

I wonder if anyone could be especially kind and assist me with the j's?

I've only managed to find one so far: the jo4/9......

10:40 am

sprite

There's another Jo4 and the plural, like what you have under your shoes, change first letter.

10:42 am

Jera

I'm stuck on an le6/18... I have the plural of the 5/10 before... help please with the other one?

10:42 am

sprite

Also Je4, sounds like agree.

10:42 am

movieman

TY, Sprite.....

10:42 am

hurshy

a sort of sore, jera

10:43 am

Jera

Thanks hurshy!

10:45 am

sprite

Is the 9 related to the 8?

10:46 am

hurshy

yup.

jera- this plural of which you spoke, latin or regular?

10:53 am

Jera

I spoke of a plural??

10:54 am

hurshy

le6

10:55 am

Jera

Oh... lol, you think I listen to me? English

10:55 am

Jera

I mean, regular, English wan't one of the choices was it?

10:56 am

hurshy

ty

10:56 am

hurshy

english/regular same thing in babble

10:56 am

JeeWhiz

So, Hurshy did you find the le? I am still stuck....Can you give a different clue for that le, Jera?

10:57 am

Uneaixoise

maker of spaghetti westerns, sergio le*** and plural

10:57 am

hurshy

yes i did - the country sierra ______ and pl

10:58 am

JeeWhiz

Hurshy, here is a clue for the third jo5, just in case you need that one....it looks like it sounds like jewel. 3 vowels.

10:58 am

hurshy

i don't, i did the j's early on to get them out of the way, but thanks

10:58 am

JeeWhiz

ah thanks, I forgot about the extra vowel.

10:58 am

LeslieAnn

good morning folks

10:59 am

JeeWhiz

no problem Hurshy, I was just trying to play your special game.

10:59 am

Angelsong

first li6?

10:59 am

hurshy

thanks jee! :)

11:01 am

JeeWhiz

I am still stuck on the second me7/32. I can't get quite get the skin clue figured out....any ideas for breaking the puzzle?

11:02 am

JeeWhiz

Does it involve the fruit?

11:03 am

hurshy

skin pigment

11:03 am

Angelsong

jeewhiz: cartoonist m** blanc + first vowel +first three letters of the number after 8.

11:04 am

JeeWhiz

Thanks Angelsong, I just couldn't get there without you.

11:06 am

hurshy

really? you didn't know the skin pigment?

11:09 am

hurshy

must modify my brain database to reflect what people know and don't know

11:14 am

JeeWhiz

Hurshy, I was stuck on the me with an 'oma ending and couldn't go the right way...my brain is still functioning quite nicely (most of the time.)

11:14 am

hurshy

oh... skin cancer you mean? i see.

11:15 am

JeeWhiz

Yip, was thinking skin cancer, not pigment ending.

11:16 am

JeeWhiz

And there were just enough letters of the wrong one to lead me astray....the brain has strange paths sometimes, and it's easy to keep following the wrong mazes...

11:16 am

Angelsong

lo5?

11:17 am

Haz1558

lo5 - add some of the letters of the Loch monster

11:18 am

hurshy

shouldn't li****a count also as the pl of the 8???

11:18 am

hurshy

there i go again - madness

11:19 am

fig

hursh; you'd think so....but you did say the 9 is related to the 8, right? still struggling with that one.

11:19 am

Haz1558

Latin plural of the li8 would end in i not a.

11:19 am

hurshy

verb, fig

11:20 am

JeeWhiz

fig, end the word in the past tense of consume.

11:20 am

hurshy

i don't think so, haz, isn't it usually um's that end with a and us's that end with i? stadium/stadia, radius/radii

11:20 am

fig

hursh and Jee: thank you. slow morning. have another fun day to spend with my parents. i'm already traumatized.

11:20 am

JeeWhiz

uranium? cranium?

11:21 am

Haz1558

li9/54 - to the abbreviated floorcovering li4/4, add French masculine for 'the' followed by past tense of 'to eat'

11:22 am

Bash

yes, for li9, make the last syllable the past tense of "eat"...

11:23 am

JeeWhiz

fig, are you traumatized by the parents or the li9 word?

11:23 am

hurshy

parents!

11:23 am

Haz1558

I only took Latin for five years so you probably know better.

11:23 am

fig

the 'rents. i'm almost 40 and they still make me twitch. the legacy of high maintenace 65+ crazy jewish parents. it's like seinfeld on drugs.

11:24 am

hurshy

:) haz, if you are going to be sarcastic, at least use my handy dandy sarcasm symbol :)

| i only took latin for five years...

11:24 am

fig

i'll be eating lino___ by the end of the weekend....and foaming at the mouth. TG for boggle.

11:25 am

LeslieAnn

do you have an ipod fig? maybe they wouldn't notice if you had it on and you could just smile and nod

11:26 am

fig

ipod...yeah. maybe i should give it to THEM to use. it's just the constant critical commentary. oh, but that's for my therapist to hear. they are nice people, but so...critical. eh. i'll live. hand the prozac over would ya?
thanks for listening. bitch session, over, out.

11:27 am

JeeWhiz

delerium? sanitarium? I never took Latin, so do these words have the same plural rule Hurshy?

11:27 am

fig

i love that the comment list beeps out bad words, but the boggle board would allow them!

11:27 am

hurshy

i don't know jee, i was just going off a couple i knew and hoping that latin had nice consistent rules :)

11:27 am

fig

i'm happy i found the 8 on my own...! small victories, and some good coffee, and the day will be okay. good luck everyeon and hopefully see you later tonight.

11:27 am

LeslieAnn

the log beeps things? really? all i've ever said is crap and it allows that

11:28 am

fig

bi*ch was beeped!

11:28 am

hurshy

it beeps the f word and the s word

11:28 am

fig

and i used it as a verb!

11:28 am

hurshy

and presumably it would beep the c word

11:28 am

JeeWhiz

Hurshy, I know you can't know everything, but it is always good to ask.

11:28 am

LeslieAnn

haha, that's funny, i always thought people did that themselves and i thought it was kind of weird

11:28 am

fig

leslie, that icon is cute like no 'otter'...

check out cuteoverload.com

11:29 am

hurshy

well maybe haz can tell us??

11:29 am

LeslieAnn

oh, believe me, fig, i do. every day. :)

11:29 am

fig

it's a nice visual respite. (squealing...coudl you just die from cuteness)

11:30 am

fig

classical plurals rule. i like to make them up....it's fun!

11:31 am

LeslieAnn

fig, i could watch that video of the cats fighting all day, every day and i don't think i would ever get tired of it

11:31 am

stidmama

morning, afternoon, evening, folks! I am migrainic again today, so hiding in a dim bedroom with shades on... any healing energy you can send will be appreciated. Meantime, I will Babble to relive the tedium. :-)

11:31 am

fig

the hamster, falling out of the wheel? hysterical. the hedgehog has my heart for sure.

11:32 am

LeslieAnn

my current favorite is the cat who has to take a bath that looks like puss in boots from shrek

11:32 am

LeslieAnn

sorry to hear that, stid. hopefully we can cheer you up!

11:33 am

Ouwachita

DONE...anyone need a clue??

11:34 am

Angelsong

any clues for the un5?

11:34 am

LeslieAnn

yay ouwachita!

11:34 am

hurshy

:) ochita

un5 pres gives a state of the _____ address every year

11:34 am

Ouwachita

a lot of workers belong to a UN5

11:34 am

tndaisy1960

Un5...holy un****

11:35 am

hurshy

ochita - i have em7, what other e comes from that box?

11:36 am

stidmama

YAY Ouwachita!

11:36 am

Ouwachita

em4

11:36 am

stidmama

LeslieAnn, you _always_ cheer me up!

11:37 am

hurshy

are you sure? are there 2 em4's then?

11:37 am

LeslieAnn

yay!!

11:37 am

Angelsong

thanks for the un clues... I belong to one myself.

11:37 am

Ouwachita

em4/6...variant spelling of a flightless bird

11:37 am

hurshy

yeah - ochita, that comes from the bottom corner, i need from the previous row

11:38 am

Ouwachita

hurshy...I only have 2 em's

11:38 am

hurshy

then it is NOT an em :)

11:39 am

Ouwachita

try the et7

11:39 am

hurshy

ty, that must be it! :)

11:39 am

Ouwachita

oops...that is et6

11:39 am

hurshy

ok... rats was hoping to get my last 7 :)

11:40 am

hurshy

got it, thanks

11:41 am

harpjane

good morning

11:41 am

FMitch

Congrats to Chealesa Movieman!!!!!
Hi again all.

11:41 am

hurshy

ok, anyone up for GWHIM?

11:43 am

stidmama

Hurshy is missing more marbles! I keep finding them in my sock drawer! Also a few screws! (and no, those are not cluse) ;-)

11:43 am

hurshy

ohhh... people think hurshy is cwazy? :O

11:44 am

chic

Good Day All!

Hurshy, I still can't get over how hysterical you and Douglas were on Star Trek day! I'm still laughing!

11:45 am

stidmama

good morning again chic! How far did you get at the flip?

11:45 am

hurshy

:D i can be star trek funny anytime you like

11:46 am

chic

only 27, Stid, I was playing Literati with mrp and co.

11:46 am

circe

hurshey - have you googled GWHIM?? :) (I am here so intermitently that I actually had to do just that) *hanging my head in shame*

11:46 am

chic

I'll remember that , Hurshy!

11:47 am

Ouwachita

godbye for now...work calls

11:47 am

hurshy

lol circe, how funny!!!

11:48 am

stidmama

later Ouwachita! thanks for the help!

11:48 am

circe

at least I know now!

11:48 am

hurshy

lol circe

11:50 am

stidmama

that is too funny! Hurshy -- you've been googlified as well as babblified!

11:50 am

hurshy

i know, i can't believe it, that is so hysterical.

11:50 am

chic

hursh, I was trying to invite you to IM with me but it wouldn't take what you said was your Id the other day..

11:51 am

LeslieAnn

well, i don't think there's too many other things that use the (word?) gwhim

11:51 am

hurshy

hurshy238?

11:52 am

chic

Yes 238 said there was a problem

11:52 am

LeslieAnn

although there is apparently a faculty professor at texas a & m with the name gwhim

11:52 am

blueskies29

hurshy ....not only can you quote the princess bride in its entirety, but i can google you.... you are my new idol :)

11:53 am

hurshy

actually you could probably google a lot of us!

11:54 am

LeslieAnn

oh what maybe that's a student... in any case, isn't there anymore

11:54 am

LeslieAnn

*what = wait

11:54 am

blueskies29

ok well really it was the princess bride song the other day...this was just an added bonus lol

I googled my name once and all I got was a character out of a Canadian mystery novel . Apparently I'm a lesbian Detective!!!!

11:59 am

LeslieAnn

i am also a male minister at a georgia baptist church

12:01 pm

chic

Hursh, I tried adding you as a contact and it said there was an error with the server....
try adding me if you want....chicashton

12:02 pm

hurshy

it says you are offline

12:02 pm

blueskies29

somebody is living my dream life...teaching dance(country at that!) at a college. lol

12:04 pm

chic

I'm not tho, I just spoke with 'nut....

12:05 pm

hurshy

hmm, i don't know... have you got some sort of block on?

12:05 pm

chic

We're on cable modem; so we're always on.

12:05 pm

Angelsong

me4/6?

12:06 pm

hurshy

yes but in AIM you can block people you don't know or something...

12:07 pm

chic

I don't think so....I added some one else just 2 days ago...

12:07 pm

hurshy

vewwwwy mystewious

12:09 pm

Freckle

guess who's back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12:11 pm

stidmama

hi Frckle!

12:12 pm

Jera

Whoo-hoo!

*happy dance of doneness*

12:13 pm

LeslieAnn

hooray for jera!

12:14 pm

stidmama

YAY Jera!

12:14 pm

chic

I checked alll my settings and asked my inhome geek; we don't have any blockers on that would preclude you.

12:15 pm

stidmama

angelsong - did you get the me 4.6? I don't have it yet, but i'm looking.

12:15 pm

LeslieAnn

me + two different vowels

12:15 pm

stidmama

just got it! me 4/6: what a french cat says...

12:16 pm

hurshy

i don't have any blocks on either - we are talking AIM right, not MSN or yahoo?

12:17 pm

chic

Ah that's it! I'm on Yahoo. don't like Msn.

12:18 pm

musicmom

Hi everyone! Hurshy - I needed you to play GWMMIM last night<G> I got down to 38 words before I got the list. I'm thinking about starting this one. BGL will be here in a few hours and can finish it for me while I pack.

12:18 pm

hurshy

i can't use MSN or yahoo, i have AIM.

12:18 pm

hurshy

oh, i'm sorry i wasn't here SMF :)

12:18 pm

musicmom

I have AIM also. I have Yahoo but forget to turn it on.

12:18 pm

LeslieAnn

i thought there was a program that could merge your aim, yahoo and msn lists...?

12:18 pm

chic

so sorry, so sad :-(

12:19 pm

stidmama

hi musicmom! <not packed yet?>

*expression of astonishment*

12:19 pm

hurshy

chic - you can get AIM, it is free

12:19 pm

musicmom

Last two loads are in the washer and dryer. The kids are packed. I have most of my stuff on the bed --- waiting on Greg to get his act together.

12:19 pm

chic

is that an AOL thing?

12:20 pm

hurshy

yes. www.aim.com to get it.

12:20 pm

musicmom

That's just the clothes --- still have to think about auto entertainment for the kids and groceries once B and J get here.

12:21 pm

stidmama

oh - that is believable! ten minutes before we left for skiing a couple weeks ago Tom was still looking for his goggles... he's only been home on vacation all week! wouldn't want to plan ahead or anything.

12:21 pm

musicmom

We aren't leaving until tomorrow --- I have PLENTY of time<G>

12:21 pm

chic

I'll try it later. I have to run to the store before it gets hot...( I generally don't like AOL tho)

12:21 pm

stidmama

*grin* that's more than plenty, that's an abundance!

12:22 pm

musicmom

LOL stid --- Exactly -- you know what I'm going through. Plus Greg is playing a recital before we leave town tomorrow (that was his wonderful planning - not mine) so he is at rehearsal and sound check right now.

12:22 pm

stidmama

later chic...

12:22 pm

LeslieAnn

My in-house geek says you can get programs, like gaim or trillion, to talk on all three at once

12:22 pm

musicmom

Bye chic!

12:23 pm

stidmama

I use gaim -- it's funny because it lacks some features the others do, but the chat stuff works fine.

12:23 pm

hetty

Good morning all. A late start today, but I see several old friends chatting away and it's a good feeling. So far I've worked with the grid quite happily until I've found myself stymied by three re5's. Any suggestions anyone? Ta

12:23 pm

knutmeg

Good Day, all!

12:23 pm

stidmama

and the advantage to gaim is that I can automatically log in to all my accounts at once. :-)

12:24 pm

chic

Hi and Bye MM and Stid. and thanx Leslieann, I'll look at it of have the inhouse geek fiddle with it for me. lol!

12:24 pm

musicmom

Hi Hetty ---- Knut.

knut = did you see how close we came to having the word "word" yesterday?

12:24 pm

knutmeg

Stid--sorry I didn't respond last night after the flip....'twas arguing with me mum. (She wanted me to feed her the grid and clues so she could do the puzzle and have me enter it for her, but I just don't have the time to do the puzzle today at all.)

12:24 pm

stidmama

hetty -- you changed! good morning, knutmeg, **Liv**

12:24 pm

hetty

OOOPS I meant ri 5's of course.

12:25 pm

hurshy

ok, 20 questions over. now must really focus on babble. sprite, you still around?

12:25 pm

knutmeg

I did see, and try to make the word "word" a few times yesterday, so amusing so close to my inquiry the other day.

12:25 pm

sprite

And back again... for the zillionth time today, lol.

12:25 pm

stidmama

poor jaianniah -- it's not fun to be stuck away from all the fun. :-(

12:25 pm

stidmama

((sprite))

12:25 pm

hurshy

how many now sprite? i need 15.

12:26 pm

musicmom

Hi sprite. You are very bouncy today:-)) I've been reading the chat on and off while doing stuff around the house.

12:26 pm

knutmeg

No, it isn't. She has done the puzzzle the last few days without being here. I asked my sister who lives near her to send over some sudoku and logic puzzle magazines today, so hopefully that'll help.

12:26 pm

stidmama

hetty -- I have only three ri 5 words, all build off the previous ri 4.

12:27 pm

hurshy

13!

12:27 pm

LeslieAnn

what's wrong with jai?

12:27 pm

sprite

78 to go, hurshy, but now it looks like I can babble for some time!

12:27 pm

hurshy

other ri's: guns, agitates, little mermaid minus first letter

12:28 pm

musicmom

go sprite go!! and Hurshy too. I have only entered 5 words.

12:28 pm

hurshy

so now we'll see, sprite, this is the moment of truth, 13 vs 78, who will win???

12:28 pm

sprite

You will!

12:28 pm

LeslieAnn

hurshy, those were exactly the words i needed to finish my r's! you're great!

12:28 pm

hurshy

(gamblers: the smart money is on sprite)

12:29 pm

hetty

Morning, Stid--"Lord, you know I bin changed/De angels in de hebben don call my name."" I promised a chatter yesterday I would cease to be a bean or a wiener forthwith. Now, about those ri's. . .

12:29 pm

hurshy

:)

12:29 pm

LeslieAnn

i'll take musicmom :)

12:30 pm

Marc Freeman

Hello all, I don't have a lot of time but does anyone have a clue for et6/18? Only 30 to go.

12:30 pm

knutmeg

Hi LeslieAnn-- My mom is in the hospital because she got into a car incident (not exactly an accident) which wrenched her recently operated-on back. They are giving her some extra-strong meds for pain and trying to figure out if they need to operate to fix whatever is wrong. Nothing is showing up on CT, MRI, or XRay, though.

12:30 pm

hurshy

add al5 minus last letter

12:30 pm

LeslieAnn

oh my goodness! well tell her we are all thinking of her.

12:31 pm

musicmom

brb

12:31 pm

sprite

Wish her well from us! What a tough break :(

12:32 pm

knutmeg

I will let her know y'all are thinking of her. :-)

12:32 pm

stidmama

i don't think i like te words any more... I need the last four and they are hiding from me. *pout*

12:32 pm

LeslieAnn

marc, et + first vowel + the king of the jungle - i

12:33 pm

Marc Freeman

Thanks Leslie

12:33 pm

knutmeg

Well, I just wanted to explain to Stid my lack of response last night. Today is family day, so I'm off to play with my husband and baby. I should be back working on tomorrow puzzle at tonight's flip. See everyone later!!

12:33 pm

sprite

Hey yo' te-words, stop hiding from stidmama! At ONCE!

12:33 pm

LeslieAnn

bye knut, have a good day!

12:34 pm

stidmama

thanks knutmeg -- have a lovely day with your family, and kiss Liv a lot for me!

12:35 pm

musicmom

Sorry --- Mapquest had BGL and J going the wrong direction. They are back on track.

Leslie -- how many words do you have. Shall I rise to the challenge?

12:36 pm

LeslieAnn

lol i have 89 left, but have plans in a bit. i'm guessing i won't finish until tonight :)

12:36 pm

musicmom

Maybe we can meet back here and race later. I have a home show at 4:00 so I will be leaving in a bit too.

12:36 pm

LeslieAnn

i was saying you could take on hurshy and sprite... right?? (talk about your babble dream team!)

12:37 pm

sprite

Hey hurshy, they are talking about us! ;)

12:37 pm

musicmom

OHHHH PLease!!!!!! I'm nowhere in the league with them. I'm tee ball to their major league.

12:37 pm

hurshy

are you as embarrassed as i am?

12:37 pm

sprite

Worse, actually.

12:38 pm

LeslieAnn

yeah, i'm the kid in the outfield picking dandelions.

12:38 pm

hurshy

yeah worse for you cause you're better than me :)

12:38 pm

stidmama

well musicmom, at least we t-ball sorts have something to aspire to! (I have all but the last te now...)

12:38 pm

LeslieAnn

lol just some good-natured fun, girls :)

12:38 pm

sprite

Am not.

12:39 pm

musicmom

you know --- anyone lurking is going to be puking soon. <G>

12:39 pm

hurshy

are too

12:39 pm

sprite

Just more stubborn than you, I think ;)

12:39 pm

musicmom

We sound like miss congeniality contestants<G>

12:39 pm

hurshy

i'm very stubborn - but slower

12:39 pm

LeslieAnn

uh oh... so this argument could take a while... ;)

12:39 pm

sprite

LOL!

12:39 pm

stidmama

*blech*

sorry folks, just too much sillyness...

12:39 pm

harpjane

el5/16?

12:40 pm

musicmom

Yep stid --- and in t-ball you get to keep batting till you hit it. (Even if the coach has to help.)

12:40 pm

hurshy

like legolas, harp

12:41 pm

sprite

E + something in in the hip zone.

12:41 pm

stidmama

okay, got the last te... on to the tas!

12:41 pm

hurshy

well looks like i'm better at clues, anyway :)

12:41 pm

hetty

Stid, I'm so sorry about your migraine. I was a martyr for years , but my physician husband cured me from time to time by making me pregnant, and then, as he promised, my hormone-activated trigger disappeared altogether at the change (that other kind of change we all know about). I have the three "ri" words having to do with Easter, and 2 "ri" words having to do with becoming upset (being of equable temperament few things **** me). There are still 2 fives ( and a six) I can't find.

12:42 pm

sprite

You are. Got the wrong EL, I see. Soooo sry :)

12:42 pm

hurshy

hetty, check my post of about 15 mins ago

12:42 pm

LeslieAnn

hetty, i think hurshy gave some good clues for those a while back... a 5 and 6 is a type of gun and plural

12:43 pm

hetty

Stid, ask for help if you need it with the "ta"'s; I have them all (complacently)

12:43 pm

stidmama

that was okay, sprite -- I needed that one ;-)

*proud supporter of the "no clue left behind" initiative*

12:43 pm

LeslieAnn

lol stid

12:43 pm

sprite

Lol, thanx stidmama :)

12:44 pm

LeslieAnn

nclb for short, of course

12:44 pm

evanonut

happy saturday all

12:44 pm

musicmom

LOL --- that would be fun to have on tshirts. nclb

12:45 pm

stidmama

ah hetty -- then there's hope for me? the migraines left for several years around the early childhood years, but are back in force these days... thinking I'll need to try something stronger than my usual... especially since the stress of the teen years isn't helping!

12:45 pm

harpjane

ok sprite, i didn't have that one either... off for a bike ride.

12:45 pm

sprite

hurshy: down to 20 now.

12:45 pm

hurshy

oh my GOSH doc g, if you read this log, there is something you should do to make more money - sell babble t-shirts, mugs, hats, etc!!!!

12:45 pm

hurshy

12 here - i TOLD you you'd win

12:46 pm

stidmama

hetty, I am lost on the first ta (of all things) and the last two as well...

12:46 pm

72 Temple Owl

hi, everyone!

12:46 pm

musicmom

YES!!! I want a babble t-shirt. We could put our player names on the back!

12:46 pm

LeslieAnn

didn't we have an idea for a t-shirt a while back? it had something clever on it

12:46 pm

stidmama

TempleOwl! good afternoon/morning/whatever...

12:46 pm

evanonut

i'd buy!

12:46 pm

musicmom

Hi TO>

12:47 pm

musicmom

Stid - there is a ta that is an anagram for the story one.

12:47 pm

stidmama

YES!!! Dr. G -- please do the Babble T-shirt thing... (meantime, that's such a good idea I think I'll play around with a sweatshirt I have....)

12:48 pm

stidmama

thanks musicmom! Now I just need the last two...

12:48 pm

sprite

Hi there Temple!

Hurshy, will you PLEASE go on babbling and not hang back until I finish, just to be in the right! :D

12:49 pm

musicmom

LOL Sprite --- yep could see Hurshy doing that<G>

12:49 pm

hurshy

:O i am not doing that, i am just dumb!

12:50 pm

stidmama

sprite... what you forget is that Hurshy babbles 24/7 these days. Her students are teaching the classes! LOL

12:50 pm

musicmom

Yeah --- and I have a bridge in Brooklyn.

12:50 pm

sprite

LOL!

12:50 pm

hurshy

oh, people say such things about me!!!

12:51 pm

LeslieAnn

well, there is my lunch date... see you all later, folks!

12:51 pm

sprite

*mumbles something about there being one more R in here somewhere...*

12:51 pm

musicmom

bye leslie.

12:51 pm

stidmama

hey guys, I've been promoted to "people"! :-D

12:51 pm

hurshy

*glad sprite didn't notice her R clues then*

12:51 pm

stidmama

bye LeslieAnn!

12:51 pm

evanonut

not me hursh - i say "dear sweet hursh"

12:52 pm

musicmom

I greyed my w without a list.

12:53 pm

stidmama

I got the last ta words! on to the su...

12:53 pm

hetty

Stid, to quote the Psalms "We spend our years as a **** that is told " (plus plural) No in pig Latin that would probably be "ta (long skinny letter) objective pronoun from "we". Its plural of course meeds one letter more than a snaky one. I've scrolled for Hursh's clues in vain. Ah well, will try the OED on guns. Ta

12:53 pm

musicmom

we are rockin' stid

12:54 pm

sprite

Forgot the plural christmasses N... will I ever learn.

12:54 pm

stidmama

ty hetty! those were the ones I needed!

12:55 pm

hetty

For the "su" one, think of the famous **** warrior and change his Z to an S

12:56 pm

sprite

4 to go...

12:56 pm

hurshy

or, you know, hikaru, from the enterprise

12:56 pm

stidmama

once again, hetty, thanks! what strange words are in the grid today...

12:56 pm

hurshy

SPRITE!!! you drive me crazy! 10 here.

12:57 pm

sprite

I need an A, a J and a T now. But who's counting ;)

12:57 pm

hurshy

*sobs*

12:58 pm

stidmama

does that last si build off the si 4.5?

12:58 pm

stidmama

there there hurshy -- you're still the one who's been googlified...

12:58 pm

musicmom

thump thump thump thump --- that's me plodding along<G> I don't know if I have the patience to go without help today.
The kids are antsy and driving me crazy.

12:58 pm

sprite

Lol, not really.

12:59 pm

stidmama

send the kids outside. tell them to look for rabbit holes or something...

12:59 pm

hurshy

si what si what???

12:59 pm

hurshy

hurry!

1:00 pm

musicmom

Good idea Stid --- actually here i can even tell them to go play in the street<G>

1:00 pm

rumplestiltskin

Hi all, I'm back. Today is smoked ribs at the Harley shop. Yummy!

1:00 pm

stidmama

hi rumple!!! hope they're not roadkill ribs...

1:01 pm

72 Temple Owl

se6 clue, please? TY!

1:01 pm

sprite

Make your kids look for a spool of chequered thread...

1:01 pm

hurshy

congress made up of house and se6

1:02 pm

hurshy

stidmama - si what?????????????????????

1:02 pm

Angelsong

I need one of the te4/4's that comes before the te4/5. I have the blue te4/4.

1:02 pm

sprite

Last Si, that's the 7.

1:02 pm

stidmama

I need the last si -- the si 7/32....

1:02 pm

musicmom

Whoot greyed all the u(s)

1:03 pm

stidmama

good for you musicmom!

1:03 pm

hurshy

AHA! done with 7's

1:03 pm

Bash

try an alternate spelling of the blue te4

1:03 pm

sprite

Stidmama,if I would say hurshy is stalling just to be in the right about me winning, I would be inS7-ing.

1:03 pm

stidmama

go hurshy go!

1:04 pm

hurshy

no you'd be insulting

1:04 pm

musicmom

LOL

1:04 pm

sprite

Close enough :D

1:05 pm

hurshy

ACK i can't do it, i have 4 more 6's, sprite is almost done... probably IS done and just doesn't want to say so and wound me

Stidmama - it's the emblem of Chelsea Football Club, and I've chosen it because earlier today the Magnificent Blues clinched their second successive Premiership title with a 3-0 victory over the once mighty Manchester United.....

We are the champions - my friend
And we'll keep on fighting till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the world......

1:23 pm

hetty

Is "congress" upper or lower case,please hursh? All I can think of is house and garden, which is evidently wrong. Nor will geese fit the bill

1:23 pm

movieman

FMitch - as you can probably gather from my last post, no, not quite!!!!!

1:23 pm

Babbler

Movieman, you're kidding? Man U lost?? Chelsea won the Premiership???

1:23 pm

hurshy

oh Congress, as in the US legislature

1:24 pm

stidmama

movieman, that is wonderful! so glad your team did so well! and I am going to have to lie down again. see you all later...

1:24 pm

FMitch

LOL movieman - ah well enjoy the celebrations!!!! WTG

1:25 pm

movieman

Babbler - no, I'm not kidding!!!!!!

We are the champions - my friend
And we'll keep on fighting till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the world.....

1:25 pm

Babbler

WOW!!! Fantastic news!!! :D:D:D:D

1:25 pm

hurshy

movieman - i think you need to have more than one victory song :)

1:26 pm

Babbler

here movieman, jump around to this:

http://dojo.fi/~rancid/ loituma__.swf

1:26 pm

FMitch

Oh no Hurshy - you don't want to go messing with UK footie songs, that wil really bring a whole heap of trouble.

1:26 pm

musicmom

If I'm only missing one m (and I have all the mu ones) what is it likely that I need?

1:27 pm

hurshy

SMF, i would guess either me7 skin pigment, or me4/6

1:28 pm

musicmom

It's the 7 thanks!

1:28 pm

hurshy

still plodding away with sprite long gone... 6 to go...

1:30 pm

movieman

Blue is the colour, football is the game
We're all together and winning is our aim
So cheer us on through the sun and rain
Cos Chelsea, Chelsea is our name.......

1:31 pm

hurshy

lovely, CHS.

1:31 pm

hurshy

or how about this one:
we won! we won! we won we won we won!

1:31 pm

movieman

1st verse.....

Here at the Bridge, whether rain or fine
We can shine all the time
Home or away, come and see us play
You're welcome any day......

1:32 pm

stidmama

go hurshy go!

1:33 pm

hurshy

it's hopeless. i'm a pathetic babbler. it takes me twice as long to find 13 words as it takes sprite to find 78.

1:33 pm

stidmama

i'm too bored to lie down so Tom found a way to dim my monitor even more... (I must look really peculiar, sitting here with shades down, no lights on, sunglasses and now a dim monitor...)

1:33 pm

musicmom

you're right Hurshy --- it is hopeless. You should just quit now and let me beat you hours from now.

1:34 pm

stidmama

hurshy, if you spent less time complaining and a little more babbling... do you have all ten nos?

1:34 pm

movieman

Repeat Chorus.....

Blue is the colour, football is the game
We're all together and winning is our aim
So cheer us on through the sun and rain
Cos Chelsea, Chelsea is our name......

1:34 pm

hurshy

NO i don't!

1:35 pm

Babbler

*whispers to Movieman* - don't we sing that for Man City, too?

1:35 pm

stidmama

moveiman... could you keep it down? I can hear you all the way over on the West coast of the USA!

1:35 pm

stidmama

haha! stidmama can play GWHIM too!

1:35 pm

movieman

Sorry, Stidmama......

I'm just soooooooo HAPPPPP-PPPPPYYYYYY!!!!!

1:36 pm

hurshy

good GRIEF that is a ridiculous word.

1:36 pm

stidmama

{{{{{movieman}}}}} *dance happy dance of joy*

1:36 pm

hurshy

ok now guess which O i am missing. :)

1:36 pm

sherb

up the Boro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1:36 pm

stidmama

it's gotta be an ol because I don't have all of them yet!

1:36 pm

musicmom

I guess it isn't the bull fighter cry

1:37 pm

movieman

Yeah, Sherb, right up the Boro.......LOL

1:37 pm

hurshy

you are right, SMF, but you don't get points for that :)

1:38 pm

stidmama

*what's a boro?* these UK types speak in tongues!

1:38 pm

sherb

yeah, well we didn't need some Russian billionaire...

1:38 pm

movieman

And I'm wearing my replica Chelsea shirt as we speak.....

(well, type!!!!!)......LOL

1:38 pm

musicmom

hahahaaa I figured --- but it was the only one I had. I'm looking for them now though.

1:38 pm

Babbler

hi Sherb! :D

1:39 pm

musicmom

Movieman is making me long for the fall and Amer. football.

1:39 pm

hurshy

so then, there is just one oi and one on and the rest ol's?

1:39 pm

sherb

stidmama - Boro is Middlesbrough Football Club... :)

1:39 pm

Norma

Good evening Babblers - a little help us needed please
I seem to be having a bother with the 6's
se6/18
li6/18
no6/21
Pleaseee eeeeeeeeeeee ;-)

1:40 pm

sherb

hi Babs !! :D

1:40 pm

hurshy

10 points norma!

1:40 pm

movieman

Sherb - yep, I have to concede that ol' Stevie Mac has done a tremendous job this season......

Who'd have thought that Middlesbrough would get to the UEFA cup final?

That was one hell of a comeback against Steaua on Thursday night.....

1:40 pm

stidmama

so did Boro do well also?

1:40 pm

hurshy

oops i mean 5, i got carried away with excitement

1:41 pm

Norma

Was that a clue hurshy or am even thicker than I thought :-D

1:41 pm

stidmama

and when you're saying football, you mean real football (soccer), not the american nonsense or rugby?

1:41 pm

mab

Good afternoooooon. Good eeeevening.

1:42 pm

musicmom

Hi mab

1:42 pm

hurshy

no it wasn't a clue it was 5 points for you in the game GWHIM, and now that i have found li6/18 i can tell you it is an adj related to li 4/4

1:42 pm

Babbler

hi Mab! : D

yes, stid, proper football, aka soccer : )

1:42 pm

musicmom

tsk tsk stid --- you call Amer football nonsense?

1:42 pm

Norma

Good evening mab

1:42 pm

sherb

stidmama - they're doing badly in the league (where Chelsea will come top), but this week they won a place in the final of the UEFA Cup (European Football), with a fantastic comeback in the second half of the match...

1:42 pm

stidmama

ha mab! that made me think of the monty python sketch where john cleese keeps ringing a bell and finally graham chapman jumps on the chair and sqwaks!

1:42 pm

hurshy

and no 6/21 is a similarly ridiculous adjective
and se 6/18 is the upper house of the american legislature

1:43 pm

Babbler

Sherb, can I mail you and pick your brains about pubs for our babblemoot?

1:43 pm

FMitch

sherb - that match was amazing!!!!

1:43 pm

sherb

hi mab :)

1:44 pm

hurshy

babbler - the 3 broomsticks, without a doubt

1:44 pm

Babbler

hi FMitch! :D

*wishes she'd watched football today* : /

1:44 pm

sherb

Babs - sure thing... email address is in the profile... :)

1:44 pm

mab

oy, the babblemoot. would that I could be there.

1:44 pm

movieman

Sherb - yep, I have to concede that ol' Stevie Mac has done a tremendous job this season......

Who'd have thought that Middlesbrough would get to the UEFA cup final?

That was one hell of a comeback against Steaua on Thursday night.....

1:44 pm

stidmama

musicmom, I went to a professional US football game once and it was terrible! so obviously staged and pre-planned and scripted. The outcome was determined well before kickoff! Made me feel so sorry for all the time I had wasted on football...

1:44 pm

Babbler

(meaning I wish I'd watched football!! LOL! not FMitch)

eerrk! : /

1:45 pm

hurshy

can anyone answer my 1:39 O query?

1:45 pm

sherb

FMitch - so people keep telling me!!! ... would you believe it, I was working that evening, and didn't even remember to set the video... :(

1:46 pm

musicmom

Awwww Stid ------ you are killing me..........

Not that I don't love soccer as well. BUT tight buns in tight pants crashing into each other. Nothing better!

1:46 pm

sherb

movieman - you're repeating yourself... ;)

1:46 pm

hetty

Hursh, thanks for the help. Knowing it was upper case (and suddenly "seeing" , funny how that works) made all clear. Now what is this ridiculous adjective stuf? I'm stuck on no6 too

1:46 pm

rumplestiltskin

Help with li9,54 pleeze

1:46 pm

stidmama

there is only 1 on, the rest are ol

1:47 pm

hurshy

and one oi, stidmama

1:47 pm

Norma

And there is only 1 oi and 1 on

1:47 pm

movieman

Sherb - sorry, I wasn't sure if you acknowledged that post first time round.....

1:47 pm

stidmama

sorry, i forgot the oi --- 'l' and 'i' look alike at the moment...

1:48 pm

hurshy

li9 verb related to li8

1:48 pm

hetty

Yes, Hursh, there is one oi4, one on4, and 5 ol's

1:48 pm

Norma

Hurshy I got the se but I still cant see the mo or li 6's am i being really thick ???????????

1:49 pm

stidmama

when you want to mark something off as within bounds, you might de + li9 it

1:49 pm

FMitch

Im not into football either if you can believe that but other half is very much into football and other sports so I have to keep up sometimes. :)

1:49 pm

hurshy

no, norma, they are stupidhead adjectives.

i HATE ol's!!!

1:49 pm

hurshy

LOL stidmama

1:51 pm

stidmama

oopsss *i did it again* well, it's sorta close... :-/

1:51 pm

Babbler

FMitch, sometimes I'm in the mood to watch a game on tv, but I'm not really into it either. Though I'm sure I'll be tuning in this summer! : )

1:52 pm

stidmama

de + li9 would be more like removing the kitchen floor, wouldn't it?

1:52 pm

hurshy

wouldn't it be cool if someday we had an25/660?

1:53 pm

Norma

Thanks for all the help folks - time for tea be back later

1:53 pm

stidmama

hurshy -- that would NOT be cool! my poor head...

1:53 pm

stidmama

later Norma

1:53 pm

hurshy

and yes stidmama, it would

1:54 pm

hurshy

but to have a word use every tile! :)

1:55 pm

mab

And how many 25-letter an words can we think of? hmmm....

1:55 pm

rumplestiltskin

This must be my dense day. I can't understand the clues for li9. I am not into sports

1:55 pm

musicmom

that would be cool. Can you imagine trying to give a clue for it. We would have to draw a map.

1:55 pm

hurshy

just one!

1:56 pm

musicmom

none

1:56 pm

Babbler

antidisestablishmentarianism

dang - 28 letters! : (

1:56 pm

hurshy

li9 is unrelated to sports.

1:56 pm

stidmama

anterioratelificationistic?

1:56 pm

hurshy

just take off the ism, babbler! :)

1:56 pm

rumplestiltskin

Can I change li8 to make li9?

1:57 pm

Babbler

oooh!! you're right, hursh! : )

1:57 pm

mab

The li 8 and are close-ish.

1:57 pm

hurshy

that seems to be 26, stid

yes, rumple

1:57 pm

stidmama

take the last two letters off the 8 and replace with the suffix that sounds like 8

1:57 pm

hetty

Stid, please go and lie down in a darkened room with a damp cloth over your forehead. My temples are throbbing empathetically and I think you should start thinking of yourself for a change, so there.

1:57 pm

musicmom

Oh my - couldn't even spell that word<G>

1:58 pm

stidmama

anterioratelificationisly!

1:58 pm

mab

nice clue, stidmama.

1:58 pm

stidmama

hetty, I AM in a darkened room! with sunglasses on! and bored to tears!

1:59 pm

hurshy

how can you be bored with words to find?

1:59 pm

hurshy

AAAAAAACK

1:59 pm

stidmama

it's actually my third day in bed... :-( first "girl stuff" then this stupiddumb headache.

i need one L and two A's, one is a 4 and two are 5's...any G's as to WHIM?

2:04 pm

evanonut

hay mabber stabber!

2:05 pm

musicmom

that's a hard game to play when I'm not looking at the list hurshy.

2:05 pm

hurshy

it would be, SMF. :) perhaps someone else will guess them.

2:06 pm

stidmama

li 6/18 hurshy? it's another s-d word

2:06 pm

hurshy

no, stid, only a 4 and 2 5's, i got the stupidhead 6

2:06 pm

stidmama

nvm you said a 4 and two 5...

2:07 pm

stidmama

there's an unusual li 4/4 with a double cons?

2:07 pm

musicmom

do you have the a+ the egyptian river?

2:07 pm

hurshy

but it is from the upper L, so def li or le

2:07 pm

JeeWhiz

Do you have 5 al/4?

2:07 pm

hurshy

NO, only 4!

2:08 pm

JeeWhiz

There is an odd al + consonant + vowel

2:09 pm

hurshy

5 points, Jee!

now a5 and L5

2:09 pm

JeeWhiz

There are 3 al 5/10.

2:09 pm

mab

I hate na and ne words. especially ne words. I second Angelsong's query. Although I'm feeling a little invisible today

Nut, you old nut, you!!!!!!! (old in the colloquial sense)

2:10 pm

hurshy

argh! 5 points jee!

2:10 pm

rumplestiltskin

Thanx Stidmama, on have j, i, f, e, and a to go

2:10 pm

stidmama

hurshy... li 4 + s...

2:10 pm

movieman

The el5/16 plz.....

2:11 pm

evanonut

not invisible to me mab, i could never miss you! unless you were missing of course, then i would miss you dreadfully. i would be miss-erable.

2:11 pm

stidmama

*fish is waiting for hurshy...*

2:11 pm

hurshy

stidmama - you just mean plural of a straight...?

2:11 pm

mab

oh, mary poppins. Thanks hurshy.

2:11 pm

hurshy

cause i have that one.

2:11 pm

musicmom

Okay I have 113 words --- no list yet. Need to take a break. Be back later.

2:12 pm

stidmama

later musicmom!

2:12 pm

hurshy

AHA! 1000 points to me and 5 to stidmama.

2:12 pm

hurshy

ty stidmama, the way you said that made me realize i must be missing an le5, and i monkeyed it.

2:13 pm

stidmama

yep that's what I meant, forgot I haven't got all the le yet *eats fish myse***

2:13 pm

JeeWhiz

Do you have the singular le mountain range?

2:13 pm

movieman

The el5/16 plz.....

2:13 pm

hurshy

CHS - like legolas

2:14 pm

hurshy

yes jee, it was the one that's male genital organ change first letter that i was missing.

2:14 pm

JeeWhiz

movieman, santa's helper like-ish

2:14 pm

movieman

Thanx, SCD.....

Gotta go, the munchies are calling!!!!!

BBL.....

2:15 pm

JeeWhiz

Thanks Hurshy, I needed that one also.

2:16 pm

hurshy

figured some people might :)

2:17 pm

JeeWhiz

kind of Hurshy's game in reverse

2:17 pm

stidmama

so hurshy -- what's the count?

2:17 pm

hurshy

oh, i'm done, was that unclear?

2:19 pm

stidmama

YAY HURSHY!!!!!!!

......>>>>>>>FI REWORKS<<<<<......

2:20 pm

hurshy

ty stidmama!

2:20 pm

mab

All hail the hurshy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well done!

2:21 pm

hurshy

nah, don't hail me, just hail sprite in absentia.

2:21 pm

FMitch

well actually, yes it was unclear Hurshy.
Congrats!!!!

2:21 pm

JeeWhiz

wouldn't hail hurt?

2:22 pm

hurshy

oh see i tend to give out 1000 points when last word is found but i guess not everyone knows that yet

2:23 pm

mab

hail to thee oh spite of words!

hurshy, you've been listless for weeks now - it's truly amazing.

2:24 pm

hurshy

AND atalante has been gone and yet i have managed without her. although there haven't been any biggies.

2:24 pm

periwinkle

HI All, first an5/10 please

2:25 pm

hurshy

but sprite! sprite is always listless and did you see how she ZOOMED through those 78 words?!

2:26 pm

FMitch

How do you manage it Hurshy?

2:26 pm

stidmama

hi periwinkle, can't help, but hi anyway!

2:26 pm

stidmama

is the mu 6 related to the other mus?

2:26 pm

hurshy

fmitch - stubbornness, and taking 4 times longer than i used to

2:26 pm

JeeWhiz

peri, is it the one with the river?

2:27 pm

mab

Sprite is a bit of a miracle. She zips through the sudokus as well.

2:27 pm

sha

add a vowel to the n-4-4

2:27 pm

hurshy

no stidmama it isn't

peri - like the one with the river, but change middle vowel

2:27 pm

periwinkle

JeeWhiz, no I have that one

2:27 pm

sha

add a vowel 2 the an -4-4

2:28 pm

periwinkle

hurshy, have that one too

2:28 pm

hurshy

well those are the first two, peri

2:28 pm

JeeWhiz

peri, do you have the licorice one?

2:29 pm

periwinkle

JeeWhiz, yes I have the licorice one, I am confused need to check the list

2:29 pm

hurshy

oh i see the problem - peri, change that vowel AGAIN, there are 3 alike :)

2:30 pm

stidmama

eyeball break, folks, bbl

2:31 pm

periwinkle

thanks hurshy, thats the one I needed

2:33 pm

periwinkle

missing the first or second an4 - have the blue dye

2:33 pm

JeeWhiz

I am still stuck on that mu6 .

2:34 pm

periwinkle

clue please for the aw7

2:34 pm

hurshy

jee - last 3 letters are a greek letter

2:35 pm

hurshy

aw7, opposite of what teenagers say everying is (besides cool)

2:36 pm

JeeWhiz

Got it ...thanks.

2:41 pm

sha

any clues for the lo 5-10

2:44 pm

JeeWhiz

sha, add part of the loch monster's name

2:46 pm

sha

thanx jeewhiz

2:51 pm

stidmama

back again... toast with marmite for lunch! my mother thinks it's disgusting, but I like it!

2:53 pm

periwinkle

stidmama, I've hard of marmite but don't know what it is

2:54 pm

stidmama

it's sort of like really condensed worchestershire sauce, but entirely veggie. it only takes a little bit to add flavor, but it's chock full of vitamins, and it really spices things up.

2:55 pm

FMitch

oooh Stidmama - I was a marmite baby - they say you either love it or hate it (I still love it).

2:55 pm

periwinkle

I didn't think you could buy it in the US, sounds interesting

2:55 pm

hetty

and my daughter and family (living in Australia) call it vegemite

2:55 pm

lynxxx

and vegemite is the australian version

2:56 pm

FMitch

It's actually a yeast extract. The only other aternate is Vegemite form the Antipodes, slightly different but same principal.

2:57 pm

periwinkle

Is it sold in the USA

2:57 pm

stidmama

I found it at the "World Market" store, do they have those where you live? Sort of like pier one but with a food section...

2:57 pm

hurshy

vitameatavegemin?

2:57 pm

sherb

emerges from the grid... marmite... yeuch...

2:58 pm

stidmama

well, marmite isn't for everyone, obviously! ;-)

2:58 pm

periwinkle

We have Pier 1 here in PA never heard of the World Market. I will look for it in the Whole Foods Market

2:59 pm

FMitch

I had a cat once that loved to lick marmite from a spoon.

2:59 pm

stidmama

okay, brain food resupplied... any more help on the mu 6? that last clue didn't help me -- I couldn't figure out how to connect to the T

3:00 pm

sherb

the Marmite adverts over here have the catch line... 'you either love it or you hate it...'

3:01 pm

periwinkle

Still looking for the aw7

3:02 pm

stidmama

periwinkle -- that I got -- aw + vowel + opposite of more

3:02 pm

periwinkle

stidmama, thanks so much. Dont have the mu word you are looking for

3:03 pm

hurshy

gee sherb, you brits really know how to market...

3:03 pm

hurshy

mu6 ends with SEVENTH greek letter

3:03 pm

periwinkle

up to 114 but really tired, time for another nap, bbl

3:03 pm

stidmama

actually, I think it's nice that they are honest -- not like us yanks who have to force things down peoples' throats...

3:04 pm

periwinkle

and that would be ----- ;)

3:04 pm

stidmama

oh -- okay hurshy-teacher-san... *scurries off to get greek re-aligned*

3:05 pm

hurshy

speaking of greek, do y'all like my Logos?

3:05 pm

periwinkle

hurshy, thanks found the mu with your clue, now I am really going, will be back later

3:05 pm

stidmama

*thanks hurshy* :-)

3:07 pm

sherb

hurshy - our films may be a washout, but our adverts are the best

3:08 pm

hurshy

i liked "love actually"

3:09 pm

sherb

good grief!

3:09 pm

hurshy

you didn't?

3:09 pm

hurshy

i mean it was a bit choppy, but hugh grant's prime ministerial speech was top-notch.

3:11 pm

sherb

grant and blair have a lot in common...

3:11 pm

hurshy

no? oh well.

3:11 pm

hurshy

grant is hotter though.

3:11 pm

sherb

... both hams...

3:13 pm

hurshy

i really think you brits should not complain about your politicians. they can speak in coherent, complete sentences, and when they answer a question the answer relates at least vaguely to the question.

3:13 pm

mo

any clues please for na6/18 and 7/28...thankyou

3:14 pm

rycaut

any hints on the fu 6 and first fu 7?

3:14 pm

hurshy

mary poppins and her ilk, mo.

3:14 pm

sherb

LOL!! and they can pronounce the word 'nuclear' correctly... not 'nucilar'...

3:14 pm

hurshy

rycaut, you pour stuff through it into a bottle

3:15 pm

Angelsong

stuck on my last two words: ri5/16 and the ri 6/27 after it. Any clues welcome....and thanks!

3:15 pm

rycaut

thanks !

3:15 pm

hurshy

and blair does not have the delusion that just because he says something, it automatically becomes true

3:15 pm

hurshy

angel - a kind of gun

3:15 pm

rycaut

you can shoot with them

3:16 pm

Angelsong

all finished! found the missing ri words, and thanks for the clues.

3:16 pm

hurshy

so, brits, *sings* count your blessings, name them one by one....

3:16 pm

mo

hurshy thank you ...how did i miss those!!!!

3:17 pm

sherb

hurshy - I respect your judgement on a lot of things, but I'm afraid you're very wrong on that one... eventually, every politician has been in power for too long...

3:17 pm

hurshy

well perhaps he has been in power too long. however do you think he has that delusion, as bush seems to?

3:18 pm

sherb

now, on a lighter note...back to the LE's...

3:19 pm

mo

an5/10 and an6/18 (the last two i think)..any clues please

3:20 pm

hurshy

mo, like 2 of the earlier an5's but with diff middle vowel

3:24 pm

mo

hurshy thank you once again...i was going the wron way!

3:25 pm

hurshy

yw

3:28 pm

JeeWhiz

li 5 and li 6?

3:29 pm

JeeWhiz

Sorry, just the li6

3:30 pm

hurshy

li5, plural fish
li6, stupidhead adjective on the li4

3:30 pm

hurshy

the first li4

3:32 pm

JeeWhiz

Thanks, that was stupidhead!

3:34 pm

hurshy

pdq

3:40 pm

hetty

Please help, me figure the name of a fish I can pluralize
(li6), then I can proceed to fret about the stupid adjective(li7)

3:42 pm

hurshy

no no hetty you have misunderstood. li5 is the plural of a straight li** (by fish i was referring to whacking with a fish when you miss an obvious word). li6 is the stupid adjective based on the first li4.

3:42 pm

hurshy

li7 is simba's mother

3:43 pm

JeeWhiz

Hetty, the li6 is the stupidhead adjective...add a suffix to the first li4. The li7 is a female cat.

3:44 pm

72 Temple Owl

bye, everyone . see you tomorrow...

3:45 pm

hurshy

bye temple :)

3:45 pm

JeeWhiz

Bye Temple....el5/10 x 2?

3:46 pm

JeeWhiz

found the one that has tardy in it.

3:46 pm

hurshy

to make joyful
e + sir____ steak

3:46 pm

72 Temple Owl

one makes you happy

3:46 pm

JeeWhiz

that looks like another stupidhead word to me.

3:46 pm

72 Temple Owl

all: check it out: www.musikfest.org

3:47 pm

72 Temple Owl

it might be a nice place for babblers nearby to get together

3:51 pm

sha

thats me finished

3:52 pm

hurshy

hurshy has a shameful secret

3:53 pm

sha

r u there ruthy?

3:53 pm

JeeWhiz

what, you are not really finished?

3:53 pm

JeeWhiz

Do tell.....

3:53 pm

hurshy

no i am really finished. but today i MESSED UP on sudoku and had to start over.

3:54 pm

ruthy

evening sha just turned pc on been tidying kids wardrobes

3:54 pm

JeeWhiz

don't you just hate that when that happens!

3:54 pm

candy

Hi Babblers

Haven't had much time to babble over the last few days Thought I would get some more practice now. But I am really stuck with the un5 word. Can anyone help?

3:54 pm

sha

kk have u nearly finished?

3:54 pm

hurshy

that's why it's so shameful - that NEVER happens to me anymore, not since like my first week.

3:55 pm

JeeWhiz

candy, it is a workers' organization.

3:55 pm

hetty

I* think I understand now, hursh. You must find me very thick. I have the the female great cat. But I still seek a suffix that will work. And by the way, I find the exchanges vis-a-vis politicians from the two major English-speaking cultures quite fascinating. Didn't expect serious discussions of this kind, but find them most instructive. Thanks to all participants.

3:55 pm

hurshy

un5 president gives state of the _____ address every year (which is most annoying - the fact that he doesn't write it himself, the fact that everyone claps every two minutes, or the fact that it may contain complete falsehoods?)

3:56 pm

MAH

sha - un 5/12 - state of the un***

3:56 pm

JeeWhiz

hurshy, you are talking about "our" stupidhead?

3:57 pm

hurshy

:)

3:57 pm

candy

Thanks Jee I am either blind or my brain has turned to mush. Maybe both.

3:57 pm

JeeWhiz

so, Candy, did you find it? We can help more if you need it.

4:00 pm

JeeWhiz

ol 6/18 and ol 5/14?

4:01 pm

hurshy

ol 6/18 verb form of prev ol4
ol 5 end of li8

4:01 pm

sha

me finished bye all

4:01 pm

hurshy

congrats sha! bye!!

4:01 pm

JeeWhiz

those words are new to me...thanks.

4:03 pm

ruthy

thats me finished

4:03 pm

sha

congrats ruthy see u tomorrow

4:04 pm

ruthy

ty see u 2morrow give my nephews and my neice a kiss from me

4:13 pm

cybernan

Hi Everyone --- should I run while able, or should I play?

4:14 pm

hurshy

play play play

4:14 pm

hetty

I'm the gal who found the lost chord--I mean the stupid adjective. Now I know to look for a suffix beginning with"a";now I want no6/ 21 please

4:15 pm

cybernan

lol -- that's all the encouragement I needed, Hurshy!

4:16 pm

candy

Play cybernan - I'm already at 103 words on only my fourth grid - if I can do it so can you

4:16 pm

cybernan

I see the trig words are back, Hurshy

4:17 pm

hurshy

um, hetty, i think you just clued yourse4.

4:18 pm

hurshy

cnan - it's an outrage! hyperbolic sine is allowed but not hyperbolic tangent!

4:22 pm

stidmama

hi nan, you're sorta in the grid today...

hurshy? still here?

4:23 pm

stidmama

okay, I need one of the last two lo 4/4. I have the one that means "solo"

4:23 pm

hurshy

candy, you are making me want to sing "captain vegetable".

my name is andy, i love candy
i eat candy whenever i can
if it's handy, give me some candy
it's so good and sweet a tasty treat
it's such a thrill to eat my fill
and gobble til there's nothing on the plate
candy is great! but wait!

"it is I, Captain Vegetable, with my carrot
and my celery
eating crunchy vegetables is good for me
and they're good for you so eat them too
for teeth so strong your whole life long
eat celery and carrots by the bunch!
three cheers for me, captain vegetable!
crunch crunch crunch!"

4:23 pm

hurshy

stidmama - sir**** steak

4:24 pm

stidmama

looks like i'm having steak and "seafood" for dinner tonight! thanks hurshy :-)

4:25 pm

hurshy

my name is eddie, i love spaghetti
so i eat it whenever i can
if it's ready, give me spaghetti
it's a lovely thing, it looks like string
it's such a thrill to eat my fill
and gobble til there's nothing on the plate
spagetti is great! but wait!

(repeat chorus)

4:25 pm

Judi

Some would say, it's not vegetables unless you have a dip.

4:25 pm

candy

hurshy - I would love to see you perform this on stage. My imagination is working overtime

4:25 pm

hurshy

am i the dip, judi?

4:26 pm

Judi

Well, that was a dippy rhyme, Hursh. Admirable, but dippy.

4:26 pm

hurshy

candy - it's sesame street...

4:27 pm

candy

I am out of the sesame street era some time ago maybe I should tune in for a refresher course

4:28 pm

stidmama

the two le 6/18 please?

4:28 pm

hurshy

other people do not listen to sesame street songs? :(

4:28 pm

hurshy

le 6/18 plural fish
le 6/18 a kind of sore

4:29 pm

hurshy

what about caribbean amphibian? you have to know that one!

4:30 pm

candy

I am starting to feel really old
*monday morning - get a new life*

4:30 pm

stidmama

got the sore, working on the fish...

4:31 pm

rumplestiltskin

Help with el5,16 pleeze

4:32 pm

cybernan

I thought you were saying this was an easy one, Hurshy?!

4:33 pm

hurshy

iiiii.... know a tropical island with a mango moon and banana sunshine, and on this tropical island there lives a cousin of mine. sometimes he lives in the water, sometimes he lives on the land. sometimes he likes to go sun himself on soft caribbean sand...

he's a caribbean amphibian, he likes to hop in a tropical sea, caribbean amphibian, a frog in a coconut tree.

the flying fish and the turtles, they see him hop where the pineapples grow... he likes to see all the islands, so island hopping he goes...sometimes he hops to jamaica, sometimes to haiti he hops, sometimes a warm puerto rico beach is where he finally stops (repeat chorus)

sometimes he lives in the water, sometimes he lives on the land, sometimes he likes to play music with an all-amphibian band!! (repeat chorus)

4:33 pm

lynxxx

rumple - santa's helpers

4:34 pm

hurshy

cnan, i see no evidence of this assertion. all i said was play play play. hurshy ALWAYS thinks people should play.

4:35 pm

stidmama

jo 5/22 please?

4:36 pm

hurshy

jo5/22 three vowels in middle

4:36 pm

lynxxx

TE5.10 ? I thnk the last one - have the ones watched

4:36 pm

mab

you are a marvel, hurshy - what a delightful clue, and spontaneously composed! (still don't know the creature however)

4:37 pm

hurshy

whoa, whoa people are not understanding. hurshy is singing sesame street songs, that's all. not a clue. just fun.

4:38 pm

mab

oh.

4:38 pm

hurshy

the creature is just a frog. kermit's cousin.

4:39 pm

hurshy

te5 starts same as what you have, ends with 2 vowels

4:40 pm

hurshy

hurshy is not a marvel.
but she does like Carvel.

4:40 pm

rumplestiltskin

Down to the A's

4:41 pm

hurshy

i scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream cake!

4:41 pm

lynxxx

ty hurshy

4:42 pm

hurshy

pdq

4:42 pm

stidmama

hurshy the marvelous
her vocab is enormalous
her babbling is just somethin-ous
yes hurshy sure is marvelous

4:43 pm

hurshy

*blush blush blush*

4:44 pm

hurshy

SPRITE. SPRITE is marvelous. write paeans for SPRITE.

4:44 pm

mab

I remember my best friend and I at 7 or 8 years old jumping on a bed and repeating I scream etc over and over. We were very happy because a new Jerry Lewis movie (yech) had just been released.

4:44 pm

hurshy

LOL mab - do you like my Logos???

4:45 pm

mab

Yes, stidmama!!!!!! And Sprite too.

4:46 pm

stidmama

sprite the elusive
leaves me inconclusive
dashing in and dashing out
babbling quickly, list without

4:46 pm

hurshy

now, sprite may not have memorized as many silly songs as i have...

4:46 pm

mab

I do not know what it means. It looks like cyrillic, so maybe greek - does it say Aristotle?

4:46 pm

hurshy

ooh nice one stidmama

4:46 pm

stidmama

its greek , it says logos... which means word

4:47 pm

hurshy

yay for stidmama! isn't it just so apropos???

4:47 pm

mab

How apt. Thanks. Very nice verse on our sprite, too.

4:48 pm

stidmama

works beautifully today! ;-)

4:48 pm

stidmama

thanks for the compliments, mab -- I can invent lyrics to anything as long as they don't have to make sense!

4:48 pm

hurshy

*hums happily* any sesame requests?

4:49 pm

stidmama

kermie, song, please, it's not easy being green....

4:52 pm

hurshy

hmm... not as up-tempo as i like, but, here you go...

it's not that easy being green
having to spend each day the color of the leaves
when I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold...
or something much more colorful like that

it's not easy being green
it seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
and people tend to pass you over cause you're
not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
or stars in the sky

but green's the color of spring.
and green can be cool and friendly-like.
and green can be big like an ocean, or important like a mountain, or tall like a tree.

when green is all there is to be
it could make you wonder why, but why wonder, why
wonder, i am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful,
and I think... it's what I want to be

4:53 pm

hetty

Hursh, it means more than just "word" ; there's a whole doctrine known to the gnostics and immortalized in St. John's gospel. A most evocative and powerful word. Most appropriate for one who has such a repertoire of good lyrics to share

4:54 pm

guigrrl

hursh -- geez you are cracking me up today!

4:54 pm

hurshy

i know hetty :) i took greek :) and since babble is a word game, it is especially perfect here.

4:58 pm

hetty

I'm blushing, hursh. Fo9rgive the eternal teacher in me.
I should have intuited the depth and scope of your knowledge. Please would you put Kermie's song on Babanon? I'd loveto have a copy of it for next time my grandchildren request a song

4:58 pm

stidmama

thanks hurshy == green is one of my favorite colors ==

and kermie's my favorite muppet

4:59 pm

stidmama

do the fi 5 6 and 7 in a row all belong together?

4:59 pm

hurshy

how about the ten commandments of health...?

(one) wash your hands before you eat
(two) brush your teeth after every meal
(three) see your doctor and your dentist
we all need checkups, no matter how good we feel

oh how lovely life will be... if we... keep the ten
commandments of health (commandments of health)

(four) cover your nose whenever sneezing
(five) cover your mouth when you're coughing, too
(six) dress warmly in cold weather
then you won't have so much coughing or sneezing to do (repeat chorus)

health, oh sweet health, it's worth more than fame or wealth to me... one thing i say a lot... take care of the life that you've got... it's such a precious commodity

(seven) exercise to keep in shape
(eight) bathe or shower when each day is through
(nine) eat lots of fruits and vegetables
(ten) give your body all the sleep that it's due

oh, hetty, you can google it, and then you can hear the tune as well, would that be ok?

5:00 pm

hurshy

yes stidmama the fi's are related

5:01 pm

hetty

Stid, I do hope Hursh's singing has helped you feel better, as it did me. I'm signing off to cook dinner now, regardless of my unsolved clues. See you later. TTFN

5:02 pm

mab

see you later, hetty.

5:03 pm

stidmama

see you later hetty, and yes, hurshy's singing has helped lift my spirits. I am so lucky to know folks like all you babbling types!

5:03 pm

stidmama

*diving into fi land*

5:04 pm

hetty

. . . and sure, Hursh, I'll google it. Of course. By the end of the decade I'll perhaps have entered the cybernetic era.Fancy a math teacher studying Greek. I'm lost in admiration.

5:05 pm

stidmama

getting closer... only les and some as to go...

5:06 pm

hurshy

stidmama, the caribbean amphibian is one of kermie's songs too. here is another:

if i were a poet, i would write a sonnet
it would say i love you, your name would be on it
if i were a farmer, you could have a bunny
if i had a beehive, you would get free honey

fa la la la la la la la la la la la la

if i were a baker, you could have a cruller
if i were a painter, choose your favorite color
if i had some diamonds, i'd give you a few
anything to show you how much i love you

fa la la la la la la la la la la la la

did you guess my secret? i am not a poet
couldn't write a sonnet - and i think you know it
i am not a farmer, can't give you a bunny
i don't have a beehive, sorry 'bout the honey

fa la la la la la la la la la la la la

i am not a baker, don't know bread from batter
and i'm not a painter, and it doesn't matter
i don't need a present, all i have to do
is look at you to show you how much i love you

fa la la la la la la la la la la la la

5:08 pm

mab

oh yes, I love Kermit too. That's such a sweet verse.

5:08 pm

rumplestiltskin

Down to 2. Help please.

last an5,10 and 6,18 (after an + Spanish cheer)
and plural

5:08 pm

stidmama

hurshy -- you are so much fun, and that is a song I hadn't heard in a long time. Thank you.

5:09 pm

hurshy

rumple they come before that, and it's licorice flavored spice, and plural

5:09 pm

JeeWhiz

no 6/21?

5:09 pm

hurshy

i also love kermie's scottish song, the frogs in the glen. it really has to be heard though, the best part is the bagpipes.

5:10 pm

hurshy

jeewhiz, another stupidhead adjective.

5:10 pm

Jacula

no6/21 - of or pertaining to the no4/5 above it.

5:12 pm

JeeWhiz

Whoosh, guess I don't feel bad when I miss those kind of words. Thanks for your help.

5:12 pm

rumplestiltskin

HURSHY, thanks! I had just forgotten to add the one with the e and the plural.

DANCE OF DONENESS!!!!!!!!*********@@@@@ @

5:13 pm

mab

Well done rumples!!!!

5:13 pm

stidmama

YAY rumplestiltskin!

5:15 pm

JeeWhiz

How about en5/10 and et 6/18?

5:15 pm

stidmama

Jacula! just the person I wanted to see -- looking at your recipes the other day... what kind of "swedes" does rumpledethumps take? the ones from the islands, or the mainland type? [that's a joke, actually -- what are swedes?]

5:15 pm

hurshy

then there's the rock and roll classic, the opposite song.

i go up... you go down
i go in a straight li4, you go round and round
i go over and under, you go through (ooo!)
tell me why do you always do the opposite of what i do? (oh oh oh oh)

i go left... you go right
i travel in the daytime, you prefer the night
whatever i go away from, you go tooooo
tell me why do you always to the opposite of what i do?

whenever i come in honey you go out
you're sure of yourself and i'm filled with doubt
when i want more, you give me less
when i say no you say yes yes yes!!

yes yes honey you hang loose, and i'm uptight
you know i'm heavy baby, and you are light
when you're so false.... how can i stay true? (ooo!)
tell me why do you always do the opposite of what i do?
tell me WHY do you always do the opposite of what i do?

5:15 pm

JeeWhiz

got the en...

5:16 pm

hurshy

et6 add al5 minus last letter

5:16 pm

stidmama

hurshy, I need the fish that is le 5 please...

5:17 pm

candy

hurshy where can I hear these songs at. They sound as if they would for the kids in our playgroup

5:18 pm

hurshy

ok, it seems clear to me that some people do not understand about the fish. generally when fish are mentioned here, it is not that the word is a type of fish, but that it is so easy that you hit yourse4 with a fish for not seeing it (all this is thanks to anj)

so if I knew what the le 5 just before is, perhaps I can figure out the le 6?

5:20 pm

Jacula

Stidmama - LOL. I meant the root vegetable not the Scandinavian blond! I think you know it as 'rutabaga' in the U.S.

5:21 pm

hurshy

yes, correct stidmama, and the five before it is the country one

5:21 pm

stidmama

ty hurshy, finally got it --

and thank you Jacula! I knew my Tom wasn't in danger...

5:22 pm

hurshy

candy - i would go to amazon and look for a CD that has a collection of sesame street songs

5:22 pm

stidmama

i have 8 words to go, all of them a... brb

5:23 pm

hurshy

but stidmama, you do see now that the five was not fishy, only it would be fishy if you had the five and didn't get the plural

5:23 pm

candy

Thanks hurshy i'll try that.

5:25 pm

stidmama

yes hurshy *headbang* NOW i see what you mean... (though I monkeytyped around the 5 all afternoon...)

5:26 pm

LeslieAnn

hello again folks

5:27 pm

Jacula

Candy - You can download Sesame Street songs to listen to at the following address:

http://members.tripo d.com/Tiny_Dancer/index2.html

(Remove any spaces Babble has added.)

5:29 pm

stidmama

hi again LeslieAnn!

I have four to go, all an words.. there is a light at the end of this tunnel!

5:29 pm

candy

Thanks Jacula I'll try that too

5:29 pm

LeslieAnn

go stid go... do you have a type of christmas cookies?

5:29 pm

rumplestiltskin

those are the ones I got stuck on

5:29 pm

hurshy

listen up america, we've something great for you,
it's something you can feel and breathe and even see right through
it isn't something you can smell or taste or eat or see
and please don't send us money, it's absolutely free
oh yes it's air air air, it's the bargain of the day
air, air, air, doesn't look like much, but hey!
it's handy when you're workin, it's handy when you play
oh yes it's air air air send for your supply today
oh you can breathe it with your mouth
or you can breathe it through your nose
and when you take your shoes off
you can feel it on your toes
it isn't purple, pink, or green, or red, or white or blue
it's kind of hard to spot it, but it's always there for you (repeat chorus)
no taste!
no waste!
no tell-tale smell, it's swell!
oh yes it's air air air send for your supply today
air air air, from maine to monterey
americans just love it, they breathe it night and day
oh yes it's air air air it'll blow you right away!

5:31 pm

stidmama

dun dun dun

DONE

daintily dancing delightful doneness dance delightedly

5:31 pm

hurshy

yay, stidmama!

5:31 pm

LeslieAnn

woooooooo stid!

5:32 pm

rumplestiltskin

**FIRE*****WORKS******FOR***** *

STIDMAMA

******************** *************

5:32 pm

stidmama

and yes, LeslieAnn, do have that word -- just wish I had some of the real thing! :-)

5:32 pm

mab

Yay stidmama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5:32 pm

LeslieAnn

mmm, i do have some, but they really are from christmas, so maybe i will skip those

5:32 pm

stidmama

*bows left, bows right, curtsies center*

*pirouette and deep bow*

5:33 pm

rumplestiltskin

I still have some Pfefferneuse in the freezer from Christmas. They last forever

5:33 pm

hurshy

for you, in honor of this completion, i sing kermie's african alphabet song...

Amazing Beautiful Creatures Dancing Excites the Forest Glade...in my Heart how I long to Jump like the Koodoo...Listen to they Music so Nice the Organ Plays... Quietly Rests the Sleepy Tiger, Under the Vine-tree by the Waterside and X marks the spot 'neath the Yellow moon where the Zulu chief and i did spy

5:33 pm

stidmama

oh, now i'm hungry...

5:33 pm

candy

I have managed 123 words since I came on here tonight - this is a personal best so far. think my brain has switched off now though.

5:34 pm

LeslieAnn

what is that rumple?

5:34 pm

LeslieAnn

nice job, candy

5:34 pm

stidmama

candy, good for you! do you want any more clues or are you really at your limit?

5:34 pm

hurshy

have you got the list, candy? it is helpful.

5:34 pm

stidmama

hurshy -- that is a funny song! thanks.

5:36 pm

stidmama

mmmm pfeffernuesse -- german cookies (literally pepper-nuts) that are really yummy. one of those cookies that's actually better a little old!

5:37 pm

LeslieAnn

aw 7?

5:37 pm

candy

I just check to see how many words are in the grid. I try not to use the list. I didn't get the 9 letter tonight yet

5:37 pm

hurshy

pfeffernuesse must be the funniest word ever. except maybe humuhumunukunukuapua'a

5:38 pm

hurshy

leslie - the opposite of another aw7 word that teenagers use a lot.

5:38 pm

LeslieAnn

i am a fan of sesquipedalian - a long word or a person who uses long words

5:38 pm

hurshy

good for you candy, some of us have the motto

BE LISTLESS

you can be in our club

5:39 pm

hurshy

lord peter liked that one too, leslie :)

5:39 pm

rumplestiltskin

My Grandmother on my Father's side was from Germany and always made them a month before Christmas and hung them on the back porch (closed in) in a cloth flour sack till Christmas. Daddy would tell how the kids would sneak in them, but she could always tell if the knot had been untied. They get good and hard and are wonderful to dip in tea or coffee. They have the an*** word in them.

5:39 pm

stidmama

the nine letter uses the same first six letters as the 8, then uses the suffix that sounds like 8...

5:41 pm

stidmama

i guess I should have known you would know about Lord Peter as well, Hurshy! what have you not read/studied/taught? are you as old as Methuselah? do you sleep? How did your brain get so big? Do I ask too many questions?

5:41 pm

rumplestiltskin

All my Mother's people are Swedish, so I also make, are you ready for this one? Smorbakelsers. They take 2 pounds of butter and are very low in calories (LOL)

5:42 pm

stidmama

Are smorbaksesses like a shortbread?

5:42 pm

LeslieAnn

i think we all need to take a field trip to rumple's house

5:43 pm

rumplestiltskin

Sort of, you put them in a press and make them in the shape of figure 8's

5:43 pm

stidmama

yes, rumple's house, then across the pond to Jacula's! Let's hear it for yummy cooking!

5:43 pm

candy

So obvious when you get help. Makes you wonder why I didn't get it. thanks

5:43 pm

rumplestiltskin

Come on! I have 2 freezers of Highland beef and love to bake cinnamon rolls and any kind of pie

5:44 pm

hurshy

methuselah lived to be 969, and in the star trek episode, requiem for methusaleh, they postulated that he didn't die even then but when on to live more lives under other names, finally leaving earth to settle on another world where he could create an android companion who would never die, not realizing that whatever kept him from dying was something about earth. i am only 28. i sleep, preferably 9 or 10 hours a night. there are plenty of things i haven't read or studied. and i am to a renaissance man as dysthymia is to depression.

5:44 pm

hurshy

went, not when. obviously.

5:45 pm

LeslieAnn

son of a... now i have to go look up that dyslsmakdnadia word.

5:45 pm

candy

I bake every day of the week (except sunday) and these recipes sound delicious. Do you think my customers would like some new cookies for a change?

5:45 pm

stidmama

oh -- my hips just got three inches wider reading all about the food! I know how to make carrot sticks! And stir fry! And I make pretty good sushi rolls, too.

5:47 pm

rumplestiltskin

I also have a guest cabin next to the Wakarusa river where the catfish are so big they just might pull you in

5:47 pm

hurshy

ooh, rumple, you should write a country song about that.

5:48 pm

rumplestiltskin

Candy, if you would like any recipes, just email me at

highland1@mindspring.com

5:48 pm

stidmama

if we wait until July, I can bring some lovely plum jelly from my russian plum tree -- it's a gorgeous pinkish red color, and so clear. And the plums are good to eat fresh, too!

5:49 pm

hurshy

who is it that talked about what a great word "plum" is??

5:49 pm

stidmama

ummm... little jack horner?

5:49 pm

candy

I might just do that rumple. I am always on the lookout for something new

5:49 pm

rumplestiltskin

Now you are making me hungry. That plum jelly would be lucious on my home made bread. I bake once a week. Hate store bought bread

5:49 pm

JeeWhiz

Rumple, do you live near Lawrence? My family makes peppernuts also...They do last forever! We only make them every few years because they last so long.

5:50 pm

hurshy

no, some english professor or writer or something. how the word, when you say it, is sort of round and juicy like a plum

5:50 pm

LeslieAnn

what are they made of that lasts so long?

5:50 pm

stidmama

my Tom bakes the breads -- I don't have the patience or strength to knead it like it wants. But I do like inventing cakes and cookies, sauces, stews, and salads...

5:51 pm

chic

Hi all.

Hurshy, I see you've heard of the Hawaiian fish...

5:51 pm

rumplestiltskin

Jee Whiz, only about 30 minutes. My grandaughter lives in Lawrence with my two great-grandbabies. I am going there next week to get my hair cut. She is a hair stylist

5:52 pm

hurshy

HUMUHUMUNUKUNUKUAPUA'A! :D :D :D

5:52 pm

chic

that one is a mouthful to say!!

5:52 pm

hurshy

*hurshy claps with glee*

5:53 pm

JeeWhiz

When you said Wakarusa, I figured you might live near by. That is a strange name, and I haven't heard it anywhere else.

5:53 pm

stidmama

runplestiltskin -- you're a great-grandmother? I thought you were MUCH younger than that -- like in your late 40s or so... WOW.

5:53 pm

rumplestiltskin

Leslie Ann, I think it is just all the spices and the fact that you hang them up and let them dry before you seal them up good and freeze them.

5:53 pm

rumplestiltskin

Jee Whiz, did you go to KU or know someone who did?

5:53 pm

stidmama

Wakarusa makes me think of Fozzie Bear...

5:54 pm

LeslieAnn

wokka wokka wokka!

5:55 pm

rumplestiltskin

Thanks Stidmama, but I will be 73 in December and still ride my own Harley

5:55 pm

hurshy

wocka wocka!!

fozzie: so i went outside today and built a snewman
snowman: what's a snewman?
fozzie: nothing, what's a-snew with you?

5:55 pm

stidmama

Jacula, if you are still there... looking at your recipes some more (or anyone from the UK) what is treacle? Is it like molasses?

5:56 pm

helenkeller

hi everybody!

5:56 pm

hurshy

helen!

5:56 pm

LeslieAnn

hey helen

5:57 pm

hurshy

treacle is molasses

5:57 pm

rumplestiltskin

English word for molasses

5:58 pm

stidmama

see, that's why I was sure you were younger -- Harley-riding grandma! LOL -- my paternal grandmother was like that -- joined a commune in Oregon in her late 60s.. didn't even look 70 (or act it) until she was 90. I miss her. I take after my other grandmother more -- stay at home, cautious, comfortable and quiet most of the time.

6:00 pm

stidmama

well, there's another mystery solved!

Sesquipedalianiacally would be a good word for the grid someday...

6:03 pm

chic

please, a clue for fu /744; i have the hahas one....

6:04 pm

LeslieAnn

rhymes with tu 7, underground passageways

6:05 pm

lynxxx

SU 4.6 - clue pls

6:06 pm

hurshy

treacle well!
Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the Dormouse began in a great hurry; `and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well--'

`What did they live on?' said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking.

`They lived on treacle,' said the Dormouse, after thinking a minute or two.

Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary ways of living would be like, but it puzzled her too much, so she went on: `But why did they live at the bottom of a well?'...

Alice ...turned to the Dormouse, and repeated her question. `Why did they live at the bottom of a well?'

The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and then said, `It was a treacle-well.'
`There's no such thing!' Alice was beginning very angrily, but the Hatter and the March Hare went `Sh! sh!' and the Dormouse sulkily remarked, `If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the story for yourself.'

`No, please go on!' Alice said very humbly; `I won't interrupt again. I dare say there may be ONE.'

`One, indeed!' said the Dormouse indignantly. However, he consented to go on. `And so these three little sisters--they were learning to draw, you know--'

6:07 pm

hurshy

`What did they draw?' said Alice, quite forgetting her promise.

`Treacle,' said the Dormouse, without considering at all this time...

Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began very cautiously: `But I don't understand. Where did they draw the treacle from?'

`You can draw water out of a water-well,' said the Hatter; `so I should think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well--eh, stupid?'

6:07 pm

lynxxx

thanks LA - I can't count!

6:13 pm

hurshy

did i scare everyone away? or are you just reading the alice?

6:14 pm

stidmama

i am going to wander off for a while, and read recipes... bbl.

6:15 pm

hurshy

hurshy DOES get carried away by her glee sometimes.

6:15 pm

LeslieAnn

bye stid

6:15 pm

hurshy

bye stidmama!!

6:16 pm

Douglas

The invaders of Pepperland are one of the words...

6:16 pm

candy

Still here hurshy - at 130 now with a little help from the list

6:16 pm

helenkeller

bye stid

6:16 pm

Douglas

I really am part of a collective this time, with two of my sons assisting me...

6:16 pm

hurshy

douglas - couldn't tear yourself away from the locutus icon, eh?

6:18 pm

hurshy

wait who are the invaders of Pepperland? are they sailors? (old salts?)

6:19 pm

chic

May I please have a clue for the jo 5/22?

6:19 pm

hurshy

chic - 3 vowels in middle

6:20 pm

LeslieAnn

jo + last vowel + you can call me **

6:21 pm

Douglas

Pepperland, 80,000 leagues under the sea, it lay, or lie, I'm not quite sure...

6:21 pm

hurshy

so they WERE sailors!

6:22 pm

Douglas

A dialect of Canadian French characterized by nonstandard pronunciations and grammar, and the presence of English loanwords and syntactic patterns.

Oooo. Hetty I just got the lo5/10. How to give a clue? Hmmm. The word is a LO + me** just like my house and take off the M

6:36 pm

hetty

Bless you, Leslieann

6:37 pm

rumplestiltskin

sorry, couldn't read my writing.

lo5 is lo + 2nd vowel + 2 snakes

6:37 pm

mich_pdx

no6 is xmas+@?

6:39 pm

hetty

Bless you, Rump

6:39 pm

rumplestiltskin

U R welcome Hetty

6:41 pm

LeslieAnn

i know i should have figured out the 9 by now, but.....

6:43 pm

rumplestiltskin

li9 is li8 take away last 3 letters + what you *** for lunch

6:43 pm

LeslieAnn

yeah i don't have the eight either *blush*

6:44 pm

rumplestiltskin

It's on a lot of kitchen floors

6:44 pm

hetty

Christmas can't be noel because there's no "l": the @symbol always confuses me because Iidentify it with email. Please help a slow learner

6:45 pm

mich_pdx

exc. clue rumples. ty

6:46 pm

LeslieAnn

oh no i can't believe i missed that. ty ty ty

6:46 pm

ExWren

Hi all, Hurshy, rumple, hetty leslieann and all.
I didn't play today, but kept visiting through the day, just to get a fix, like a true addict

6:47 pm

LeslieAnn

hey wren, did you see your name was in the puzzle again yesterday?

6:47 pm

rumplestiltskin

no6 is plural of no5,10 no + 3 rd vowel +snake + 2nd vowel + snake

6:48 pm

mich_pdx

hetty, christmas is there, the last letter is at the bottom middle

6:48 pm

joey

okay, i must be dumb. for the li 9, if you take away 3 letters from the 8 and add what you >>> for lunch that only gives me 8. what am i missing?

6:48 pm

mich_pdx

joey, leave the "e"+8

6:49 pm

LeslieAnn

i think you've got it opposite, joey, i did the same thing. the floor covering is the 8, not the 9

6:49 pm

ExWren

Rumple, I beat you by six months, I will be 73 in June, but I definitely don't ride a Harley, I prefer my Toyota.

6:49 pm

rumplestiltskin

sorry only take away the last 2

6:49 pm

joey

missyem, thanks a lot.

6:50 pm

mich_pdx

de nada, Joey!

6:50 pm

joey

rumple........... ahhhhhhh ty

6:50 pm

rumplestiltskin

ExWren, hurrah for you. At least you get out there and ride. Nothing like it

6:51 pm

mich_pdx

rumple, thanks for the "loud" clues

6:51 pm

LeslieAnn

se 6/18?

6:52 pm

rumplestiltskin

You have the House of Rep and the Se****

6:52 pm

mich_pdx

leslieann, they sit on Cap. Hill & talk alot the Se*****

6:53 pm

ExWren

I'm going to turn in now, we have been celebrating our wedding anniversary, and we've had a very nice meal, and a bevy or two, so I'm ready for sleep!

6:53 pm

LeslieAnn

eek i am missing some easy ones today. thanks.

6:53 pm

LeslieAnn

how many years wren?

6:54 pm

ExWren

17 years, we are both "second-time-rounders"!

6:54 pm

hetty

Oh Missyem, how could I miss the long skinny? The eyes play tricks I find. But grrrr I stll can't see the suffix or whatever comes after Christmas other than New Year

6:54 pm

rumplestiltskin

We celebrate our 55th in November but what is a "bevy"?

6:54 pm

nrkii

no6 == there are 2
one is PERSON PLACE OR THING + MR FRANKEN
other one is plural of no 5/10

6:54 pm

LeslieAnn

lol, well congrats, have a good night!

6:55 pm

helenkeller

congrat wren - have a great evening!

6:55 pm

hetty

Congratulations, Ex-wren. The first 50 years are the worst

6:56 pm

ExWren

a bevy is a drink or two!
It would have been my 50th next year with my first husband, but I was widowed just before our 20th, (he was just 43yrs)

6:56 pm

mich_pdx

sorry, Hetty, I was asking a question... the clue was
"no6 is no4 + 1st vowel + stick letter" from Rumple & I am clueless which no it is, because none are accepted...

6:57 pm

hetty

Please, who is Mr Franken? ( I have then other) Should I know him?

6:58 pm

nrkii

Paul Simon sang a song called 'You can call me XXX'

6:58 pm

nrkii

Also a southern state abbreviation

6:58 pm

mich_pdx

you can call me "**" Frankin, he's on TV & the radio, an american satirist & commentator

7:00 pm

rumplestiltskin

Misseyem
There are 2 no6's
first one is plural of no5,10 - no + 3rd vowel + snake + 2nd vowel
second one is no + 5th vowel + hump + 1st vowel + stick letter

7:02 pm

mich_pdx

Thx Rumple, I was confused, obviously! sorry Hetty

7:03 pm

hetty

You know I was liooking at yesterday's grid on the lickety site, which I had printed off tomtake to my library stint with e? No wonder I wasn't seeing Christmas! But I'm still stymied. Maybe someone else can find a non ***Franken clue thatb will help me. What comes after Christmas, other than New Year's??

7:03 pm

rumplestiltskin

Sorry Ex-Wren, my youngest daughter lost her husband in an accident when he was 43. Very sad, but glad that you have found happiness. Congratulations!!!

7:04 pm

LeslieAnn

le 6/18 (not the plural)?

7:05 pm

joey

hetty, it ends in the first vowel and the stick with a right straight line at the bottom

7:05 pm

rumplestiltskin

I have a le**** on my skin

7:06 pm

mich_pdx

nothing comes after christmas, but boxing day. it was the mr frankin clue that I was confused about and doesn't exist -- it's not your eyes!

7:06 pm

LeslieAnn

ah, a twisty one. thanks rumple.

7:06 pm

joey

hetty, the first four is a part of speech -

7:06 pm

cybernan

jo 5/22?

7:06 pm

hetty

Rump! You did it. You are the cat's meow

7:07 pm

LeslieAnn

sounds like a crown je***

7:08 pm

mich_pdx

jo5/22 french game + mr frankin's first name

7:09 pm

Douglas

Actually it's Franken, and he's currently pestering Minnesotans by wanting to run against Norm Coleman for Senate.

7:09 pm

rumplestiltskin

jo + 5th vowel + 1st vowel + stick

7:09 pm

cybernan

Thanks, Missy and Leslieann

7:10 pm

hetty

Douglas had a marvellous clue forjo5/22 earlier. It's a form of French-Canadian patois, a mixed language;anyway you need 3 vowels together before the long skinny

7:10 pm

mich_pdx

sorry, Douglas, I knew that....I'm old enough to remember his skits on SNL!

7:11 pm

raine_kz

:)

7:11 pm

rumplestiltskin

LAST CALL! Going to watch old Gunsmokes

7:12 pm

mich_pdx

Rumple, thanks SO MUCH for your clues & have a great evening

7:12 pm

hetty

Thanks, Joey, my no's are now complete, and my "nous" restored. No, tat isn't a game word, it's British slang for know-how (at least it used to be)

7:12 pm

Douglas

The very fact Al Franken is even contemplating running for Senate is humorous in a sad way. He has some serious collegiality issues with other talk show hosts, so I have a hard time believing he would make a good Senator...

7:13 pm

joey

yw, glad to help

7:13 pm

lynxxx

any clues for EM4.6 EN 4.4 and ET 6.18 - TY

7:14 pm

LeslieAnn

et 6 - et + first vowel + king of the jungle - i

7:14 pm

LeslieAnn

em 4/6 - em + abbr. for european union

7:15 pm

LeslieAnn

en 4/4 - en + a good ** boy

7:16 pm

lynxxx

ty LeslieAnn - is that a baseball team?

7:16 pm

Douglas

They have watemelon, but not watermelon

7:18 pm

LeslieAnn

ooh thanks for the me 5/12 douglas ;) they also almost have "fissure" just missing the e

7:19 pm

mich_pdx

they have Eloi, but no Sleestaks

7:21 pm

LeslieAnn

mu 6?

7:22 pm

Sushi

Hey, if I could vote I would vote for Al Franken in a heartbeat. Can Al Franken any worse than the rest of the boys in office? I'm Canadian living in USA so cannot put my X where my opinion is. That's sushi's 2 cents for tonight

7:22 pm

cybernan

li 9?

7:22 pm

LeslieAnn

nan do you have the 8?

7:23 pm

lynxxx

MU 6 is MU 5.14 drop last letter and add tanks

7:23 pm

cybernan

yes

7:23 pm

Sushi

Happy dance...LI8 is the floor I am standing on.

7:23 pm

LeslieAnn

ok, take the 8, drop the last two letters, add past tense of eat

7:24 pm

lynxxx

tanks! make that thanks

7:24 pm

cybernan

Thanks, Leslie

7:24 pm

Douglas

I am floored by Sushi's clue! Thank

7:24 pm

LeslieAnn

oh i see. thanks lynx.

7:25 pm

Douglas

We are going to eat something and then come back...

7:26 pm

Sushi

Yeah, but are you bowled over by my political soap box Douglas?

7:26 pm

LeslieAnn

ta 7/32?

7:27 pm

Uneaixoise

plural of ta5/12

7:27 pm

LeslieAnn

crud, i was bluffing... don't have the 5 ;)

7:28 pm

Uneaixoise

:-D
ta5: ankle bone

7:28 pm

aknitter

ta 5/12 is your ankle bone

7:29 pm

lynxxx

TA5/12 oppos of hsort - drop last letter - and 'we'

7:30 pm

LeslieAnn

yay i am done! anyone need a clue?

7:30 pm

Uneaixoise

congrats!

7:31 pm

krausbrew

Aye, finished at last without needing a clue!! Time for a beer, a good hand crafted one.

7:31 pm

mich_pdx

*****FIREWORKS************* for LeslieAnn, happy dances & I am el5+d for you

7:32 pm

LeslieAnn

excellent job, kraus!

7:32 pm

lynxxx

congrats LA - I am still searching for ME 7.32 and ME 4.6 (after large fruit)

7:32 pm

krausbrew

Congrats LeslieAnn********

7:32 pm

LeslieAnn

me 4/6 - me + 4th vowel + 5th vowel

7:33 pm

LeslieAnn

me 7 - like the kids who steal your lunch money

7:36 pm

mich_pdx

*****FIREWORKS************* for kraus & prost!

7:36 pm

lynxxx

TY LeslieAnn - its the second ME 7.32 I need, but I think a need a caffeine hit before I find the last 11

7:36 pm

misstearweus

<-----glub, glub, glub...sound of me drowning in this grid.

Hi everyone...started at 10am, been working on and off and haven't cleared 100 words yet!!!

7:37 pm

LeslieAnn

oh sorry - me + my initials + first three letters of the number after eight

7:37 pm

renfield

2nd me 7/32 - dark pigment

7:39 pm

nrkii

last te 5/10?

7:39 pm

LeslieAnn

te + stick letter + 4th vowel + 3rd vowel

7:40 pm

nrkii

TX!!!

7:41 pm

sandr

evening all. down to my final few. could i get a clue for the jo5/20 (not the welsh name) and the el5/16. thanks

7:41 pm

LeslieAnn

el 5/16 - stole this clue from earlier - like legolas in lord of the rings

7:41 pm

mich_pdx

the last el5 is too elusive, the one after Keebleresque. Help?

7:42 pm

LeslieAnn

sandr, i don't know which is the welsh name, but just change the third letter of your other 5/20

7:42 pm

majmom

just got home from work-how many words tonite -will work on them for awhile before bedtime as gotta work in a.m.

7:42 pm

LeslieAnn

e + lo 4/4

7:42 pm

nrkii

last el... change third letter to third vowel

7:42 pm

renfield

sandr - jo 5/20 - is also known as having a drug addiction (slang)

7:43 pm

nrkii

and of course, I meant 4th vowel... sorry

7:43 pm

sandr

thanks for that

7:44 pm

mich_pdx

ty! I try typing in french & half the time is sticks, l'autre.... pas de tout

7:45 pm

sandr

i have 8 left to find but i'm half asleep! somebody pinch me

7:46 pm

renfield

pinch pinch pinch

7:46 pm

LeslieAnn

*pinch*

7:47 pm

majmom

anyone-how many words tonite please

7:47 pm

sandr

lol - 7 to find..............

7:47 pm

nrkii

Done!!!

7:48 pm

mich_pdx

*****FIREWORKS************* for nrkii!!

7:48 pm

sandr

thers 174
can i get a clue for the li6/18 pls

7:48 pm

majmom

ty

7:49 pm

joey

me too, me too. yippee skippee

7:49 pm

nrkii

for li 6/18, ad a man's first name to the li 4/4 just before it

7:50 pm

mamabook3

any clues for jo 5,22?? Please

7:51 pm

nrkii

jo 5/22 sounds like rubies and pearls and emeralds (without an s on the end)

7:51 pm

markbowers7

are u sure its not jo5/20?

7:52 pm

mamabook3

that's 5,20...need 5,22

7:52 pm

LeslieAnn

i'm taking off. good night folks!

7:53 pm

renfield

jo 5/22 = magazine ladies home jo***** minus the n and the r

7:53 pm

mich_pdx

good night, LeslieAnn, thanks so much

7:53 pm

sandr

im sorry but i dont get the clue for the li?

7:53 pm

renfield

nite leslieann

7:53 pm

nrkii

hmmm, will try again

jo 5 22 is what knights do (fighting) , minus last two letters, plus abbreviation for southern state

7:54 pm

renfield

li 6 = 1st li 4/4 + 1st vowel and the hockey stick consonent

7:54 pm

Sherylr1961

evening all
back to try and finish this puppy off

7:55 pm

nrkii

li 6
first part sounds like mean
second part is abbreviation for a southern state

nrkii, all it took was 3 games and I paid the $10! -- def. addictive & I'm a newbie too.

8:28 pm

stidmama

yes, nrkii, the icons are lots of fun, aren't they? I am still trying to figure out what icons look good and which ones don't work so well. I didn't have a good logo available today, so I put up a shot of my lavendar flowers. Not real pleased with it, to be honest, but too sight-impaired to care!

8:28 pm

mich_pdx

stid, don't forget the SPF 30, sunglasses & shorts as well as the fleece, raincoat, t-shirt, etc. It is springtime, after all :)

8:30 pm

stidmama

oh, right. though I don't usually even buy sunscreen until June... :-)

8:30 pm

nrkii

well, that's it for me today... 9:30 here, and I have skipped dinner and even neglected to turn on the lights... probably should step away from the computer...

Good night all!

8:31 pm

stidmama

good night nrkii! see you tomorrow!

8:31 pm

mich_pdx

pdx is a little nicer & I'm fair-skinned & trying to keep the age damage to a min. otherwise how can I continue to pass for 32 when I'm really 41?

8:32 pm

jeffer

stid ty for the clue
sorry to hear about the headache - doesn't computer work make it worse?

o and a clue for el 5/10 anybody?

8:32 pm

stidmama

el 5/10: to make really happy; el + (did eat)

8:33 pm

mich_pdx

jeffer, el+8

8:33 pm

Sherylr1961

could someone give a clue for the ta 5/12 pls

8:33 pm

stidmama

well, the room is dark, I wore sunglasses most of the day, and we dimmed my monitor as much as possible...
truth is, i was bored to tears since sound bothers me too I couldn't even listen to the radio! Lesser of two evils.

8:34 pm

stidmama

ta 5/12: another geology word; "high" - one l + "we"

the 7 is its plural

8:35 pm

Sherylr1961

ty stid

8:36 pm

mamabook3

ol 5,10 and ol 5,14...any clues please??

8:36 pm

hetty

ta 5/12 is not unlike the one preceding (the claw of a bird of prey) except it looks like a Latin version, ending in objective person pronoun (we, **, ours, etc.)

8:37 pm

jeffer

sorry missy and stid - did it again!
i have that el 5/10
and the little person related one .....

8:38 pm

mich_pdx

the other one is a virtual cut of meat e+lo4

8:40 pm

jeffer

lol missyem good clue
i thought i tried all the virtuals there.

8:40 pm

stidmama

hi hetty! how was dinner?

8:41 pm

mich_pdx

thx, jeffer. D'oh, I've got to get ready for a stupid fundraiser "fiesta" a friend is throwing! See you all later!

8:42 pm

stidmama

later, missyem!

8:44 pm

Sherylr1961

thats it for me another one finished

8:44 pm

stidmama

i think i'm going to sneak out again, too. BBL

8:45 pm

Sherylr1961

night all see you all tomorrow

8:46 pm

jeffer

i am embarrassed about these but desperate ...
je 4/9 not the name one?
jo 4/9 the second?
se 4/7 not the first or the "me" ? thank you

8:46 pm

lynxxx

OL 5.10 ends in opp of out

8:48 pm

lynxxx

jeffer - JE ends in opp of off. JO sounds like happy.

8:49 pm

lynxxx

Jeffer again - there is only 2 SE 4.7s - ?

8:50 pm

mamabook3

ty lynn

8:52 pm

jeffer

thanks lynxxx got the je,
and you are right about the se i need the second se4/7

8:53 pm

lynxxx

Jeffer - I thought you had two but 'if' you didn't

8:53 pm

jeffer

lynxxx oops i do not need any se 4/7 sorry

8:53 pm

mamabook3

se 4,7...change the last letter of se 4,4 to the sheppard's crook

8:53 pm

featherbee

stid, don't know if you'll be back in time to see this, but just wanted to wish you well on getting rid of the migraine! i get them too, so know just what you're going through.

not doing today's puzzle, it's way too late to start it, so i'll see you all tomorrow.

8:54 pm

mamabook3

one more to go...any clues for si 7,32?? please

8:55 pm

lynxxx

SI 7/32 - this is ususally preceded by IN

8:55 pm

jeffer

si 7/32 a word that normally starts with "in"

8:56 pm

mamabook3

great clue.. thanks!

8:57 pm

lynxxx

afternoon all - I'm off & done - thnx for all the help

8:58 pm

jeffer

thanks lynxxx

mu 6/24 anyone?

9:01 pm

stidmama

ty featherbee -- surprising how many of us erudite types get migraines! maybe our brains are too big for our skulls?

9:02 pm

hetty

for mu6/24 you take mu4 (the braying one) and add a thank you in two letters (a consonant foillowed by the first vowel)

9:03 pm

jeffer

ta very much, hetty

9:05 pm

hetty

Hi stid! Dinner was just fine: spinach salad, meatless meatloaf, tapioca pud. Now I feel too sleepy to begin rattling through my list again, but if you're willing to help me I might just break down and let you.

9:06 pm

stidmama

i can help -- but will be multitasking -- Mikey invited me to a game of Literati, where my posterior is being trammeled.... *i love tapioca pudding*

9:11 pm

featherbee

"maybe our brains are too big for our skulls?" sounds like a good reason to me! lol

enjoy your literati game...somewhere, i have a link to a "real" online scrabble game...i'll have to share sometime.

9:11 pm

musicmom

BGL and I are finished!

9:12 pm

featherbee

hmm, there's this one...solitare scrabble:

http://www.themanin blue.com/experiment/SSCrabble/

9:12 pm

stidmama

YAY BGL and musicmom!

BTW how did daughter's recital go?

9:12 pm

hetty

I play Literati too--but only on my husband's computer since mine doesn't have the applet (yet) Let's have a migraine-sufferers' turnament sometime. Meawhile, I am seeking one al5/10 (not the solitary one or the oily ointment one) 2 an5/10 (not the ones ending in a stick and a second vowel) and one an/6 (not the one that sounds like a truncated candy)

9:15 pm

stidmama

al 5/10: a + anagram of large African cat; a + a cut of meat

9:16 pm

jeffer

et 6/18 anyone?

9:17 pm

stidmama

an 5/10: a nice spice... (often used at the holidays)

an 5/10: an 5/10 ending in vowel, change the middle vowel...

9:18 pm

musicmom

Thanks Stid. The concert was very good last night. She is dropping community chorus next year to be in marching band at school so this was her last concert.

9:19 pm

stidmama

well good. glad it went well, and I know that those choices have to be made... Matthew didn't do choir this year so he could continue in band...

9:19 pm

featherbee

found it! it had changed hands, so took me a while.

http://games.atari.com /playgames/scrabble/lobby.jsp

with that, i'm off, night.

9:19 pm

musicmom

Well, we only have 30 minutes left on my battery. AND I still need to finish packing. So we will say good night. Only if it is a very small grid will we play tomorrow. Otherwise --- we will see you all in a week.

Big hugs and kisses from MusicMom and BGL

9:22 pm

stidmama

musicmom, will miss you and BGL a lot. Hope your vacation goes well and that your mother enjoys her surprise. Will be expecting a play-by-play when you return. (don't forget your sunscreen! and extra bottles of water!)

9:23 pm

72 Temple Owl

hello everyone!

9:23 pm

stidmama

thanks featherbee, will look that up when I have a spare moment... see you tomorrow!

9:23 pm

musicmom

thanks stid --- we have water wine and beer --- caprisun for the kids. Set to go. We'll miss you too. Probably too much to hope for a wireless connection in the cabin.

See you next weekend. take care of that headache.

9:23 pm

jeffer

hello Temple

9:24 pm

72 Temple Owl

mm - enjoy your trip! see you in a week!

9:25 pm

jeffer

the first le 5/10 ??

9:26 pm

Kenny Chuck

Evening, everyone!!

9:27 pm

Kenny Chuck

Trying to finish..."fishing" for clues...

9:27 pm

stidmama

hello KennyChuck!

hetty -- how are you doing?

9:27 pm

hetty

thanks, Stid, but you go off and play with Mikey now. I had the spice (sing and pl) and the changed-in the-middle-vowel one and I'm giving up in the interests of marital harmony. I have a husband who doesn't like watching HEARTBEAT without me. Recover and stay well

9:27 pm

stidmama

both an 6 are simple plurals of the previous an 5s

9:27 pm

Kenny Chuck

UL5/12, to be specific...please and thank you.

9:28 pm

stidmama

I understand... have a lovely evening, and see you tomorrow

9:28 pm

72 Temple Owl

stidmama: r u playing now?

9:29 pm

jeffer

ok now this one i really need -
ol 5/14 please

9:30 pm

jeffer

there's un 5/12 the holy ***** of marriage

9:30 pm

72 Temple Owl

jeffer: think of your li8/50

9:30 pm

Kenny Chuck

jeffer, first three letters = common man's name in Sweden, followed by what you say when you are buying time...

9:30 pm

stidmama

yes, there are five of us... my first time playing Literati in several years, and I am sorely outclassed...

9:31 pm

72 Temple Owl

mind if i watch? been sick all day now can't sleep

9:31 pm

Kenny Chuck

Great clue, jeff, thanks.

9:32 pm

Kenny Chuck

The second TE5/10 would also be greatly appreciated...

9:32 pm

Kenny Chuck

Jeffer, did you get your OL5?

9:33 pm

stidmama

oh TempleOwl, I am so sorry... we are in the Pondering Pronouns lounge, talbe 17

9:34 pm

jeffer

thanks kenny chuck got the ol 5

thanks temple

9:34 pm

72 Temple Owl

ok - anyone else i know?

9:35 pm

Kenny Chuck

72TempleOwl...sick all day? Nothing serious, I hope...

9:35 pm

stidmama

mrp and mikey -- you might know the other two. Mikey said he'll invite you to the table as soon as you get to the lounge.

9:35 pm

jeffer

Temple Owl that ol clue was a good 'un.

9:36 pm

72 Temple Owl

and mr p is kicking butt, i'll wager!

9:36 pm

shirin

any clues for the we5,18s?

9:36 pm

stidmama

LOL -- how did you know?

9:37 pm

jeffer

li 6/18 clue please?

9:37 pm

stidmama

the wa 5/18 ends in the plural letter, all the wes are 4...

9:37 pm

shirin

Sorry, I mean wa's

9:37 pm

stidmama

okay, TempleOwl, Mikey opened the table up for you -- you can waltz right in when you're ready!

9:37 pm

cybernan

li 6/18: add Mr. Gore to the 4/4

9:38 pm

cybernan

Done!!! --- had to resort to the list today as the old brain wasn't working too well!

9:39 pm

shirin

thank you stidmama

9:39 pm

cybernan

wa's -- both 5's are plurals

9:39 pm

stidmama

YAY nan! it wasn't as easy as yesterday's, that's for sure!

9:40 pm

stidmama

shirin, that is a lovely sunflower you're wearing today

9:40 pm

shirin

I dont know why I didnt see them on my own so thanks again!

9:40 pm

JeeWhiz

I am stuck on the si7/32. Does anyone have a clue besides it normally starts with in?

9:41 pm

dinoshadow

can I ge thelp with the li9? I got the li8, any relation?

9:41 pm

shirin

thank you, it is in honor of my son who just planted two seeds, and are now growing into beautiful sunflowers

9:41 pm

stidmama

li 9: drop the last two letters of the 8 and add "8"

9:41 pm

JeeWhiz

dino, it is quite similar, but ends in the past tense of the consumer of food word.

9:42 pm

cybernan

si 7: think of the si word for what get's clogged when you have hayfever, drop the last letter and add past tense of to eat

9:43 pm

JeeWhiz

thanks cybernan....:)

9:43 pm

dinoshadow

thanks cybernan

9:43 pm

jeffer

hi and ty cybernan.

9:46 pm

cybernan

anyone want a clue before I leave?

9:48 pm

Kenny Chuck

Hi cybernan, second TE5/10 would be greatly appreciated.

9:49 pm

cybernan

te 5/10: te + french law

9:51 pm

cybernan

bye for now -- may be back at the flip :)

9:58 pm

stidmama

i'm heading out for awhle. see you later.

10:19 pm

pthomp

slow going on this one....

10:41 pm

harpjane

hello

10:55 pm

harpjane

If anyone's there I could use a clue for the two jo5/20's

11:01 pm

pthomp

jo 5/20 common surname

11:04 pm

pthomp

keeping up with the jo*** 'es

11:06 pm

pthomp

the other rhymes with bowls

11:06 pm

harpjane

hello. someone is there after all! I got the jo's. Thanks!

11:32 pm

Sushi

one of the jo5 rhymes with what dogs dig in the backyard

11:35 pm

Sushi

Oh baby.. First time I broke 1000 points.. Happy dance and signing out loud.

11:49 pm

ch1212

hi harpjane and all -- just hanging out until the flip, if anyone needs a clue or two

11:49 pm

Sushi

y'all fell asleep? I'm too stressed right now for clues. Just waiting for the flip.

11:50 pm

ch1212

Congrats on your first 1000 points, Sushi

11:50 pm

stidmama

waiting for the flip, then off to sleep today...

11:51 pm

ch1212

Hi stidmama - didn't see you there :)

11:51 pm

Sushi

Yep there's something special about that first times, wouldn't you agree. Problem is I wasn't near finishing yet :(

11:51 pm

stidmama

hi ch! was multitasking, not really here for a while.

11:52 pm

ch1212

You'll get there. It really does get easier as time goes by

11:57 pm

SummerBreeze44

Anyone have a clue for the un5?

11:58 pm

ch1212

when you marry, you have made a un*** of two hearts

11:58 pm

stidmama

un 5: like the vegetable that makes you cry...

11:59 pm

SummerBreeze44

CH1212 - ty so much. Just finished.

11:59 pm

pthomp

any clues for the 9 letter?

11:59 pm

stidmama

YAY SUmmerbreeze!

11:59 pm

ch1212

WOW - congrats! 1 minute to spare!

12:00 am

SummerBreeze44

ty stidmama

12:00 am

hetty

I've come back in order to join the flippers, if I'm permitted to do so--just to set the seal (as it were) on my becoming a bona fide babbler, hooked and all that. So, if I can do it right, I will--then how sweetly I'll sleep.